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He bought sealing-wax, a glass seal, with "Esperance" as a motto, gilt-edged notepaper, and several other requisites in the stationery line, and ordered them to be packed up carefully, that he might not soil them; he then purchased scented soap, a hair-brush, and other articles for the toilet; and having obtained all these requisites, he added to them one or two pair of common beaver gloves, and then went to the barber's to get his hair cut.
"Yes; and so you ought at your age," she replied. He bade good-night to Clara, and went. The twisting stairs of white, scrubbed wood creaked and clanged at every step. He went doggedly. The two doors faced each other. He went in his room, pushed the door to, without fastening the latch. It was a small room with a large bed. Some of Clara's hair-pins were on the dressing-table her hair-brush.
You do not stand out against wireless telegraphy or the Röntgen ray?" Miller fired at this. "I'm not going to take instruction from a tipping table or a flying hair-brush!" he fiercely retorted. "I'll take illumination from any source whatsoever," responded Fowler. Here I interposed: "The only question that concerns me at this stage is: Does the table tip and the brush really fly?
If you are not, skip this bit, and thank God you have got something in the way of a defence between your hair-brush and your head. "Just on the other side of the holly," Penelope went on, "Mr. Godfrey came to a standstill. 'You prefer, says he, 'that I should stop here as if nothing had happened? Miss Rachel turned on him like lightning.
At bed-time, Miss Rolleston, contrary to her wont, entered Bluebell's room, hair-brush in hand, as if disposed for a cozy confab. But that employment, so provocative of feminine disclosures, appeared futile this night, and the raven and chestnut coils were brushed to the sheen of a bird's wing ere Cecil had discovered what she had come for.
'When anyone is as beautiful as you, said the shirt-collar, 'is not that encouragement enough? 'Go away, don't come so close! said the garter. 'You seem to be a gentleman! 'So I am, and a very fine one too! said the shirt-collar; 'I possess a boot-jack and a hair-brush! That was not true; it was his master who owned these things; but he was a terrible boaster.
Once a silver hair-brush that I was fond of; and I sometimes look there when bangles or hat-pins are missing," and letting her eyes dance at Maurice, she threw back her head and laughed. Here, however, another difficulty arose; except for a few nickel coins, the purse was found to contain only gold, and the required change could not be made up.
There were lively times in the Portsea lodging-house, next morning. The many last small tasks that crowd upon the out-going voyager had kept even Hope too busy to talk much, and she at length stopped breathlessly, to cry, as she jammed her dressing-sacque and tooth-brush into an already over-crowded bag, "Dear me! Faith, have you a spot for my hair-brush?
She knew as well in short that a person could be compromised as that a person could be slapped with a hair-brush or left alone in the dark, and it was equally familiar to her that each of these ordeals was in general held to have too little effect. But the first thing was to make absolutely sure of Mrs. Beale.
They could not go near enough to the basket to see what the trouble was, and still it seemed very necessary that they should. "I wish I had a telescope," said the lady with the hair-brush. But there was none in the room, and it was contrary to the rules of etiquette for any person to leave it until the Princess was taken from the basket. There seemed to be no proper way out of the difficulty.
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