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She greeted the girls briefly when they presented themselves to her, and in the next breath began giving orders about the arrangement of the tent. The beds must stand thus and so; the washstand must be on the other side from where it was; the mirror must stay on this side.
A clean white towel concealed the marred condition of the washstand, while the bed, which was made up high and round, especially in the middle, looked very inviting with its snowy spread.
We had taken off our coats it being frightfully hot and with a bottle of claret and a bowl of ice standing on the little washstand and two glasses all in full view, we awaited the arrival of our friends, the enemy. Our door was flat against the partition, giving a full sweep of the room to the eye of the passerby, and George and I waited confidently for the inspection we knew was inevitable.
"I wonder how long it takes to become unconscious?... Often read of women drowning in a bucket. I wonder if any air enters by the ears if the basin would have to be as deep as a bucket?" She experimented gripped the washstand with both hands and slowly sank her head into the water, when again there was a knock on the door. Not the landlady this time it must be Casimir.
I think there's some water on the washstand, and Vernon shall bring you a clean towel. The little fellow trotted out after his mother, and trotted back presently with the towel one towel, which was about in proportion to the water-jug and basin. Ida shuddered, remembering the plentitude of water and towels at The Knoll.
As he stared ahead of him there rose before him a mental picture of her the brightness of her, the sunniness, the indomitable energy, and pluck, and courage. With a sudden burst of new determination he wadded the towel into a moist ball, flung it at the washstand, seized hat, coat, and gloves, and was off down the hall.
Lawrence's logic is beyond me," pursued Diana. "However, we'll obviate the difficulty. I'll have tea out of my tooth-glass" glancing towards the washstand in the adjoining room where that article, inverted, capped the water-bottle "and you, being the honoured guest, shall luxuriate in the cup."
SIR James brushed past Julius and hurriedly bent over the fallen woman. "Heart," he said sharply. "Seeing us so suddenly must have given her a shock. Brandy and quickly, or she'll slip through our fingers." Julius hurried to the washstand. "Not there," said Tuppence over her shoulder. "In the tantalus in the dining-room. Second door down the passage."
You know the beautiful bowl and pitcher that were in her chamber?" "Yes." "Both handle and spout are off of the pitcher." "Edith!" "And the bowl is cracked from the rim to the centre. Then the elegant rosewood washstand is completely ruined. Two knobs are off of the dressing-bureau, the veneering stripped from the edge of one of the drawers, and the whole surface marked over in a thousand lines.
"You're dippy!" sneered Virat. "I haven't seen the Magpie in a month." "An' dat's what youse did it wid." Larry the Bat, as though he had not heard the other's denial, reached into his pocket, and shoved a small, murderous, bloodstained blackjack, the leather-covered piece of lead pipe that he had found beneath the washstand, suddenly across the table under Virat's eyes.
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