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Fett handed the market-basket, after extracting from it an enormous melon, and bade him escort the Princess upstairs and give her choice of the cleanest apartments at his disposal. He then led us to the main living-room where, from a corner-cupboard, he produced glasses, plates, spoons, a bowl of sugar, and a flask of white wine.
"Chief wants to see you, right away," the saloon keeper said. The brewer nodded. "All right. Keep me covered; don't know how long I'll be." He crossed the room and opened a corner-cupboard, stepping inside. The corner cupboard, which was an elevator, took him to a tunnel below the street. Across the street, he entered another elevator, set the indicator for the tenth floor, and ascended.
The room was put to rights in the morning by one of the maids, and the glass washed, I presume, as usual. I know that the decanter was nearly full that evening; I had refilled it a few days before, and I glanced at it when I brought the fresh syphon, just out of habit, to make sure there was a decent-looking amount." The inspector went to the tall corner-cupboard and opened it.
He unconsciously hoped that it was at least not entirely so here. The room was less furnished than when he had last beheld it. The 'bo-fet, or double corner-cupboard, where the china was formerly kept, had disappeared, its place being taken by a plain board.
The shabby little old man, ringer of the disappointed bell, is standing in the porch, and has put his hat in the font for he is quite at home there, being sexton. He ushers them into an old brown, panelled, dusty vestry, like a corner-cupboard with the shelves taken out; where the wormy registers diffuse a smell like faded snuff, which has set the tearful Nipper sneezing.
Their interest was so deep that the younger ones whispered when her back was turned "How pretty she is; and how that best frock do set her off! I believe it cost an immense deal, and that it was a gift from him." Tess, who was reaching up to get the tea-things from the corner-cupboard, did not hear these commentaries. If she had heard them, she might soon have set her friends right on the matter.
There was but little furniture: two or three chairs, a table which was littered with papers, and a corner-cupboard the open doors of which revealed a miscellaneous collection bundles of papers, a tin saucepan, a piece of cold sausage, and a couple of pistols.
We've put in seventy pounds of best feathers, and I think that's as many as the tick will fairly hold. A bit and a drap wouldn't be amiss now, I reckon. Christian, maul down the victuals from corner-cupboard if canst reach, man, and I'll draw a drap o' sommat to wet it with."
His attention was drawn to the window, still unblinded, though a lamp lit the room. He stepped back against the wall opposite, and gazed in. At a table covered with a white cloth a young woman stood putting tea-things away into a corner-cupboard. She was in all respects the Avice he had lost, the girl he had seen in the churchyard and had fancied to be the illusion of a dream.
Ha, you men make the laws, and so you take good care to have all the best of 'em to yourselves: otherwise a woman ought to be allowed a divorce when a man becomes a mason: when he's got a sort of corner-cupboard in his heart a secret place in his mind that his poor wife isn't allowed to rummage! "Caudle, you sha'n't close your eyes for a week no, you sha'n't unless you tell me some of it.
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