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I take my maid's receipt for salary in advance; I show her the bathroom and the library that's the idea, is it? Why, she might be a boarder! Next, they'll be asking for a place at the table and an hour's practice on the piano."
In the right wall of the entry there were also two small doors, reached by a flight of steps. At this hour both closed empty rooms, for the office and the chamber where Herr Ernst Ortlieb received his business friends had not been occupied since sunset, and the bathroom and dressing-room adjoining were used only during the day.
This he said with his customary courtesy. But meanwhile the tail of his highness's frock coat was sweeping the marble of the dressing table. The place, indeed, was like an alcove or narrow bathroom, full as it was of the steam of hot water and sponges and of the strong scent of essences which mingled with the tartish, intoxicating fumes of the champagne.
"Eyebrows a little deeper, and you must note the walk, George. Now please step into the next room and change clothes with this gentleman, Mr. Courage." I did as I was told. The next room I found was a most delightfully furnished sitting-room, with a chair-bedstead in the corner, and a dressing-room and bathroom opening out from it. "You don't wear an eyeglass, Mr. Courage?" my companion asked.
"And when the garden's full of flowers!" she breathed in rapture. She was thinking, "Strange, nice boy! He's so romantic. All he wants is bringing out." They wandered to and fro. They went upstairs. They saw the bathroom. They stood on the landing, and the unseen spaces of the house were busy with their echoes. They then entered the room that was to be Edwin's. "Mine!" he said self-consciously.
And he would have given much of his pride to be able to go back and help the old man upstairs once more, and do it with a more loving patience. "I've sent Jane," said Maggie, returning to the bedroom. "You'd better go and finish dressing." On coming out of the bathroom he discovered Albert on the landing, waiting. "The missis would have me come up and see how he was," said Albert.
After it, when the Byrds found themselves in their cozy bedroom with its old New England furniture and blue-tiled bathroom, Stefan, waltzing round the room, fairly hugged Mary in excited glee. "What fun, Beautiful, what a lovely place, what air, what snow!" She laughed with him, her own heart bounding with unwonted excitement. The six-day party was a marked success throughout.
Joy forced a half smile and continued reading. "I suppose we get dressed for dinner now?" Blue Bonnet, ventured, beginning to unfasten her waist. "Yes." "Is dinner just at six?" "Yes." "What do we do in the meantime?" "Study or practise; or read, if you wish." Blue Bonnet went into the bathroom and made as much of her toilet as was possible. When she came out, Joy was still poring over her book.
America, he reflected, was a little deaf. She had to be shouted to. But once she heard, once she thoroughly grasped ... He cogitated much in his cabin one with a private bathroom, for Mr. Twist had what Aunt Alice called ample means on these two defenceless children. If they had been Belgians now, or Serbians, or any persons plainly in need of relief!
There, just opposite her, was the old red brick house. "Yes, that is the place," she was thinking. "I can smell the carpets now, and the dog, what was his name? That grubby bathroom at the end of the hall, and that dreadful Hedger still, there was something about him, you know " She glanced up and blinked against the sun.
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