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And in this room hitherto sacred to the charming mysteries of girlhood his cadaverous presence forced the skirts and petticoats on Milly's bed, and the disordered apparatus on the dressing-table, and the scented soaps on the washstand, and the row of tiny boots and shoes which Leonora had arranged near the wardrobe, to apologise pathetically and wistfully for their very existence.
He was particularly nice about the washstand, and genuinely desirous of not taking up too much of the space in the small bedroom. Quick to respond, Lotty was even more desirous not to be in his way; and the room became the scene of many an affectionate combat de générosité, each of which left them more pleased with each other than ever.
"I don't wonder at uncle," he cried; "I don't wonder at his being in a rage." With a weary sigh he went to the washstand and half filled the basin. "I'd no idea I looked such a sight," he muttered, as he began to bathe his stiff and swollen features. "The brute!" he said, after a few moments. "I wish I'd told uncle, though, that I beat him well. But, oh, dear! what a muddle it all seems!
The preacher nodded toward a washstand in the corner and Douglas began to make his toilet. Mr. Fowler made no attempt to talk during this process but stood before the fire, watching the young man with somber, wistful eyes. It was an exceedingly well-groomed young rider who appeared at Elijah's long breakfast table a half-hour later.
But was not that enough to live on at a modest boarding-house, and get a room with bed, table, one chair, and a washstand, and buy him the necessary clothing? Oh, yes! of course he could scratch along on it, but it was hardly what a young man of his standing and family ought to have. Oh! it didn't enable him to get out into society, was that it?
The bedstead, bureau and washstand were likewise offensively modern. Everything was as clean as a pin, however, and the bed looked comfortable. He stepped to the small, many-paned window and looked out into the night. The storm was at its height. In all his life he never had heard such a clatter of rain, nor a wind that shrieked so appallingly.
But I haven't done anything wrong, and they shan't cane me and that's flat!" and he shook his curly head decidedly. The room was less than ten feet square and plainly furnished with two chairs and a small couch. In one comer was a washstand containing a basin and a pitcher of water. "This looks a good deal like a cell," he mused as he gazed around.
It was as small and as squalid as all the other rooms in that crowded court; but it was different from them in one respect it was clean. A miserable chair bedstead of the cheapest kind, covered with a threadbare quilt; a chair with the back broken off; a washstand on three legs, and a triangular piece of silvered glass, the remains of a cheap mirror, composed the furniture.
"Doesn't look like it," said Corliss, gesturing toward the washstand. "Had anything to eat to-day?" "No, and I don't want anything." "Well, wash up and we'll go and get some clothes and something to eat. I'll wait." "You needn't. Just give me a check and I won't bother you after that." "No. I said wash up! Get busy now!" The younger man demurred, but finally did as he was told.
"Te pedstead is forty tollars; te chairs is three tollars apiece; te taple is twenty tollars; and to washstand is fourteen," he replied. "And how much will that amount to, altogether?" she asked. "Eighty-six tollars," he responded. "Can you take no less, sir?" she asked. "No, ma'am," he answered. "I have put one brice, and if you don't vant to pay it you can leave it."
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