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Was there not Toulu, the horse, in his stall in the ruined stable; Tulipan, the Pomeranian dog, Adam, the old butler, and Alexis, the "man of all work," who rowed their boat on the lake, tidied the garden as well as the weeds and his own natural laziness would allow him and was regarded by Boris as the type of all manly perfection! What could children want more?
She tidied up her little bed-room very carefully, and always ran out in the garden and cut a little bouquet to place in the vase upon her toilette table, to make her room sweet and pleasant for her. Chloe said, "don't be troubled, Miss Fannie; I am used to work. I'll find you a boarding place, and then I'll go out to service, and pay your bills.
The next day was spent in the same way, and by the evening the trenches had been considerably tidied up, when, at 9 p.m. we were relieved by the London Regt. These last two days cost us several casualties, amongst them Serjt. R.E. Foster, who was badly wounded by a shell.
Oh, I know a sort of nice little officer boy, just washed and tidied up!" The landlady, who had evidently enjoyed this passage at arms, laughed as she gave Copplestone a significant glance. "And when did you come down home, Addie?" she asked quietly. "I didn't know you were here again." "Came down Saturday night," said Addie. "I'm on my way to Edinburgh business there on Wednesday.
They carried the patients to the theatre and to the wards, they cleaned the stretchers a very difficult and unpleasant job they tidied up the wards and scrubbed the floors, and they carried away all the soiled dressings and burned them. They were a fine set of men, and I do not know what we should have done without them.
Untired, she brewed him hot coffee, forced him to drink it and lie down; tidied up the little flat there at six-thirty o'clock in the morning, with a hit-and-a-miss it is true, but allaying all signs of confusion; fluted an Eton collar for Zoe and packed her off to school; and at half after eight, just out of a cold and invigorating shower, was combing out the fine electric rush of her hair, a pink Turkish bathrobe, the color of her firm, cool skin, wrapped tightly about her and caught in by a cord at her waist line.
It is a mystery to me how the man gets on, but I am told that a foolish old vrouw in Amsterdam lent him a lot till she discovered but there, I don't talk scandal. And now," he added, changing his voice, "is this place private?" "Let's see," said Dirk, "they have cleared the things away, and the old housekeeper has tidied up my bedroom. Yes, I think so. Nobody ever comes up here after ten o'clock.
Much of this poetry is unintelligible; much of it undoubtedly of far later origin; and the names of Taliesin and Myrddin, all through the centuries spells for Celts to conjure with, are now the laughing-stock of a brand-new scholarship that has tidied them up into limbo in the usual way.
That evening Mrs. Trent had tidied up the room and had left Dorian to spend the night with the sick man. The tea-kettle hummed softly on the stove. The shaded lamp was turned down low. "Dorian." "Yes, Uncle Zed." "Turn up the lamp a little. It's too dark in here." "Doesn't the light hurt your eyes!" "No; besides I want you to get me some papers out of that drawer in my desk."
The pillows were put at feyther's back, the blankets over his knee, his pipe and screw of 'baccy being placed handy on the window-sill; then Tom and Bob withdrew to assume their Sunday suits in preparation for the day, while Mrs. Wainwright and her daughters made the bed and tidied the room.
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