浣衣女的喧闹声震天价响，她们从早到晚叫呀，说呀，唱呀，狠捶衣服呀，跟现在的情形一样。

There was a great uproar of laundresses; they screamed, and talked, and sang from morning till night along the beach, and beat a great deal of linen there, just as in our day.