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The spirit of war was in that ward and hunted them even in their sleep; lurking terrors surged up again in their subconsciousness. Sights which they had tried to forget stared at them through their closed eyelids. The daylight came and the night nurse slipped away, and the day nurse shook one's shoulders and said: "Time to wash and shave. No malingering!" It was the discipline of the hospital.
All will then go on smoothly, and I shall trouble myself no more about creeds or covenants, whether secular or spiritual." He then went to dress and shave after this complacent resolution, but was still a good deal surprised to find that his hand shook so disagreeably, and that his powerful system was in a state of such general and unaccountable agitation.
There were Jews, with Sunday papers and fruit; there were couriers and servants straggling about; there were those bearded foreign visitors of England, who always seem to decline to shave or wash themselves on the day of a voyage, and, on the eve of quitting our country, appear inclined to carry away as much as possible of its soil on their hands and linen: there were parties already cozily established on deck under the awning; and steady-going travellers for'ard, smoking already the pleasant morning cigar, and watching the phenomena of departure.
All these books about women being emancipated you'd think marriage had changed entirely. Yet, right now, in 1912, in Panama and this hotel not changed a bit. The business women must simply compel men to oh, to shave!" Wade's room. That discussion was far more gentle and coherent than most of their quarrels. It may have been rather to the credit of Mr.
The captain informed him there were several, and as some of them were rather delicate, with very little beard, he hoped his barber would not shave them too close. One of the midshipmen was then brought up blindfolded.
"That shore was a mighty close shave," commented the puncher. "But you haven't said what the fellow looked like." "He wore ordinary range clothes," replied Blake. "I couldn't see him behind the rocks, and caught only a glimpse of him as he went around the ridge. His horse was much the same build and color as Rocket." The puncher stared at Ashton with his cold unblinking eyes.
He counted them carefully, replaced them in the belt, and then once more secured the latter about his waist. "At last I am safe," he muttered to himself, "but it was a close shave a very close shave. I wouldn't do that journey again for all the money the stones are worth. No! not for twice the amount."
"I suppose I must shave? I shouldn't meet any one by this train." He looked at her anxiously for indulgence. "Certainly you must," she said severely, and then he knew there was no hope. "Do you want any of this with you?" she added, nodding across to his paper-strewn table, "or shall I put it all in a safe place till you come back?"
I have not been a barber for fifteen years without knowing very well how to let blood as well as how to shave; and if this man's brother is dead, it is in spite of what I did for him, and not in consequence of it. As to what is alleged of my delay, I deny it altogether.
It's Lord Mayor's Day, you know, and the streets are still badly blocked. I had a jolly close shave of it myself. How does it feel to be back in dear old London?" "I think I prefer Calcutta," Jack replied, stolidly. "I'm not used to fogs." Jimmie regarded him with a critical glance, with a stifled sigh of disappointment.
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