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3 She would bring the laundry back about two weeks later. My mother had never been so pleased with any washwoman. Every piece of laundry was as clean as polished silver. Every piece was neatly ironed. Yet she charged no more than the others. She was a real find. Mother always had her money ready, because it was too far for the old woman to come a second time.  charge n. （商品和服务所需的）要价，收费：charge for sth We have to make a small charge for refreshments(茶点). 包邮？ Delivery is free of charge. 2. 指控， 控告 He will face a charge of armed robbery(持械抢劫). 主管，掌管，责任：in charge of, take charge of She is in charge of the day-to-day running of the business. He took charge of the farm after his father’s death. V. 收费，要价： charge sb/sth (+money) for sth 这家餐馆收了我们20美元的晚餐费。 指控，控告： charge sb with sth He was charged with murder. 赋予…职责或任务： charge sb with sth The committee has been charged with the development of sport in the region. 委员会已被赋予在该地区发展体育运动的职责。 4. 充电： charge sth 给电池充电？ 4 Washing clothes was not easy in those days. The old woman had no tap where she lived, but had to bring in the water from a pump. For the clothes and bedclothes to come out so clean, they had to be scrubbed thoroughly in a washtub, rinsed with washing soda, soaked, boiled in an enormous pot, starched, then ironed. Every piece was handled ten times or more. And the drying! It had to be hung in the attic. 5. She could have begged at the church door or entered a home for the poor and aged. But there was in her a certain pride and love of labor with which many Gentiles have been blessed. The old woman did not want to become a burden, and so bore her burden 6 The woman had a son who was rich. I no longer remember what sort of business he had. He was ashamed of his mother, the washwoman, and never came to see her. Nor did he ever give her any money. ①The old woman told this without bitterness. One day the son was married. It seemed that he had made a good matc