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Fanny made no answer, and the next minute Miss Symes had left her. Fanny now went over to the corner of the room where a snug little white bed had been put up, a washhand-stand was placed and where a small chest of drawers stood empty at present, for only a few of Fanny's things had been taken out of her own room. The girl looked round her in a bewildered way. The packet! the sealed packet!
'It might, said Robert; 'but I should think paraffin would do as well at any rate as far as the smell goes, and that seems to be the great thing about Tatcho. But with all its faults Anthea's idea was something to do, and they did it. It was Cyril who fetched the Tatcho bottle from father's washhand-stand. But the bottle had not much in it.
Before presenting myself amongst the others I naturally thought of dressing, or rather, as I had gone to sleep in my clothes, of performing some sort of toilet and making myself as tidy as I could; but, lo and behold, when I looked round the cabin of the deck-house, nothing in the shape of a washhand-stand was to be seen, while my sea-chest being underneath a lot of traps, I was unable to open the lid of it and make use of the little basin within, as I wished to do if only to "christen it."
I always ask myself on these occasions, 'What would Napoleon have done? I think Napoleon would have sat in a chair by his washhand-stand, which is close to the door; he would have posted you by your washhand-stand, and he would have instructed Comrade Jellicoe, directly he heard the door-handle turned, to give his celebrated imitation of a dormitory breathing heavily in its sleep.
Upon the marble top of the washhand-stand in the bedroom the police found some scrawled words in a character they could not decipher. Experts were brought in, when it was found that the writing was in Russian character, and the words were: "The holy Starets is " This conveyed nothing to the London police, who, of course, knew nothing save that a "Starets" in Russia is a "saint."
There were a couple of chairs and a three-cornered washhand-stand. There was neither sofa nor writing-table. There was not an ornament on the high wooden mantelshelf, or a picture on the panelled walls. Vixen shivered as she surveyed the big barren room. "I think you will find everything comfortable," said Mrs.
But reason could not be spoken to him till a whispered counsel had been held in the far corner by the washhand-stand and the towel-horse, a counsel rather long and very earnest. At last Anthea detached herself from the group, and went back to the Priest. 'Look here, she said in her kind little voice, 'we want to be friends. We want to help you. Let's make a treaty.
By the end of April Bobby Little had accumulated, with a view to facilitating the destruction of the foe An automatic Mauser pistol, with two thousand rounds of ammunition. A regulation Service revolver. A camp bed. A camp table. A camp chair. A pneumatic mattress. A portable bath. A portable washhand-stand. A dressing-case, heavily ballasted with cut-glass bottles. A primus stove.
"Of course, if you like," said Tom, staring; "that's your washhand-stand, under the window, second from your bed. You'll have to go down for more water in the morning if you use it all." And on he went with his talk, while Arthur stole timidly from between the beds out to his washhand-stand, and began his ablutions, thereby drawing for a moment on himself the attention of the room.
On the further side of the fireplace was a washhand-stand, with a tin pail below it, and the Major's bowler hat reposing in the basin. There was a piece of carpet underneath the table, and a woolly sort of mat, trodden through in two or three places, beside the bed. Mrs. Partington coughed as she came in, so tremendous was the reek of tobacco smoke, burning paraffin and spirits.
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