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I drive all my bargains in the tongue and raiment of Shoreditch. If I didn't there'd be the very devil to pay in blackmail. Now, this cupboard's full of all sorts of toggery. I tell the woman who cleans the room that it's for my models when I find 'em. By the way, I only hope I've got something that'll fit you, for you'll want a rig for to-morrow night." "To-morrow night!" I exclaimed.
"Because I've found another room I'd quite forgotten there was one. And it's magic! And I've boiled the water for tea in a saucepan." The forgotten room opened out of the kitchen. In the agitation and half darkness the night before its door had been mistaken for a cupboard's.
Kitty, stretching his neck and looking with big, frightened eyes into the cupboard's corner, suddenly turned round; struggling out of cook's hold and rushing over her shoulder, he flew out of the kitchen. Getting up, Cook said: "That's always what he does, just as if he was seeing something horrible!"
He would come to her for advice, as most people did, but yet would never touch upon his serious difficulty; and she sometimes wondered if the cupboard's secret was no longer a trouble to him. 'Do you think I am leading a lazy life? he asked her one day, when he met her walking out and insisted upon accompanying her home. 'I think you are.
And the cupboard's got a good lock to it; but we'd 'ave it seen to, to make sure." She looked up at him eagerly. She longed to feel herself trusted and important. Her self-love was too often mortified in these respects. John fumbled round his neck for the bit of black cord on which he kept two keys the key of his room while he was away and the key of the box itself.
Cupboards, as a class, are badly ventilated, and this one seemed to contain no air at all; and the warmth of the night, combined with the cupboard's natural stuffiness, had soon begun to reduce Sam to a condition of pulp. He seemed to himself to be sagging like an ice-cream in front of a fire. The darkness, too, weighed upon him. He was abominably thirsty. Also he wanted to smoke.
And the cupboard's got a good lock to it; but we'd 'ave it seen to, to make sure. She looked up at him eagerly. She longed to feel herself trusted and important. Her self-love was too often mortified in these respects. John fumbled round his neck for the bit of black cord on which he kept two keys the key of his room while he was away, and the key of the box itself.
"The cupboard's bare," he said. "We've riz," pursued the mountaineer, undeflected from his object, "a heap. We was pore as possums, and now we could hev folks to dinner every day. We been recognized, Missis Garvey says, by the best society. But there's somethin' we need we ain't got. She says it ought to been put in the 'ventory ov the sale, but it tain't thar.
And I've seen the furniture" he pronounced it furchinur "dancing about in the day-nursery when it thought it was alone, and I've heard it talking at night. I know the big cupboard's voice quite well. It's just like a drum, only rougher...." The Colonel shook his head and frowned severely, staring hard at his son. But though their eyes met, the boy hardly saw him.
They were decorated round the rims with bands of red and green and yellow; the very egg-cups were similarly banded; and portraits of the late Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort decorated the cupboard's two panels. Breakfast over, she helped Mr. Mortimer to wash up, and while she helped was conscious of a new and uncomfortable feeling, of which she could make no account with herself.
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