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The fresh underthings had been boiled and sterilized, but the immortal cootie had come through unscathed and in all its vigor. Corporal Wells raised a pathetic wail: "Blimme eyes, mytie! I got more'n two 'undred now an' this supposed to be a bloomin' clean shirt! Why, the blinkin' thing's as lousy as a cookoo now, an me just a-gittin' rid o' the bloomin' chats on me old un.
She said: 'I think so. So I said: 'Have you got warm underthings on? And she said: 'No, they were cotton. I asked her why on earth she hadn't got something thicker on in weather like that, and she said because she HAD nothing. And there she is a bronchial subject! I HAD to take her and get some warm things. Well, mother, I shouldn't mind the money if we had any.
Dallison, am I to get more than one set of underthings?" "Three-three," muttered Hilary; and suddenly he saw that they were on the threshold of that sanctuary. "Buy them," he said, "and bring me the bill." He waited close beside a man with a pink face, a moustache, and an almost perfect figure, who was standing very still, dressed from head to foot in blue-and-white stripes.
Furs, overcoats, boots, mittens not gloves, for gloves are no good when it is really cold and underthings that are warm and heavy. We don't want to come back with noses and toes frozen off." "Humph!" said Bobby scornfully, "what kind of underwear should you advise our getting for our noses, Bob Henderson?" "Aw you know what I mean," said the boy, grinning.
Sitting in his underthings on the edge of the bed, he held the wine-coloured creature in the crook of his arm for a long time, the look in his round eyes, half eagerness, half pain, of one pursuing the shadow of some ghostly and elusive memory. He touched the C-string by and by with an adventuring thumb.
Nevertheless Miss Van Tuyn felt afraid. This strange and terrible letter dovetailed with Dick Garstin's warning, and both fitted in as it were with the underthings in her own mind, with those things which Garstin had summed up in one word "intuition." Arabian had taken her news about Garstin quite coolly. "I will see about that myself," he had said. "But now "
"I wish now I'd been different," Mrs. Condon said, standing in the door. Her dress was not yet on, but her underthings were fully as elaborate and shimmering as any gown could hope to be. "And above everything else, I am sorry for the kind of mother you've had." This was so unexpected, the other's voice was so unhappy, that Linda was startled.
As far as that was concerned, she had some woolen blankets, and two beds complete with bedding, too, nor did she lack clothes: she had many changes, both underthings and top ones. Yet in spite of that she had started some more weaving. I asked in some surprise whether they had been engaged. I had had no inkling No, but . Well, not exactly engaged with a ring, and plighting the troth and all.
As for the girl, she was surprised to see a man, and particularly a young country man, among the gloves and stockings, cheap pink underthings, and embroideries of Miss Tolman's shop. "You got any any aprons?" he stammered. "White aprons or gingham?" The girl's smile helped Wesley a great deal. A very nice girl, he decided; but she made him feel queer, light-headed. "I'm not sure, ma'am.
"It smelt good," Billy supplied. "That's the very thing. It's what the women's pages call atmosphere. I didn't know what they meant before. That house has beautiful, sweet atmosphere " "Like all your nice underthings," said Billy. "And that's the next step after keeping your body sweet and clean and beautiful. It's to have your house sweet and clean and beautiful."
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