Unit 4Text AII.1. The washwoman was already past seventy when she started washing for the narrators family.She was a small woman, old. Wrinkled and thin.2. This washwoman possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant forebears.She usually put the bundle of laundry on her narrow shoulders and carried it the long way home.But most Jewish women of her age were sickly and weak.They had bent backs and leaned on sticks when they walked.3. The sentence means that the narrators
