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Updated: May 19, 2025
Vimpany could at least remind Mountjoy that he exercised authority as master of the house. "Oh, take him upstairs, my lord," said the doctor; "you are at home under my humble roof!" The two young men faced each other in the barely-furnished drawing-room; both sufficiently doubtful of the friendly result of the conference to abstain from seating themselves.
"And you go right around, Alec," his wife added, "and twist the head off that dominicker chicken. Pick some flat beans too, there's a mess still hanging on the poles. Go in, Mr. Makimmon." He was ushered into the ceremonious, barely-furnished, best room.
He led me into a small, barely-furnished room, with high windows and only one door. It was empty when we entered it. Ray looked at me as he closed the door, and I fancied that for him his expression was not unfriendly. "Ducaine," he said, "there has been some more of this damned leakage. Chelsford will ask you questions. Answer him simply, but tell him everything everything, you understand."
Sometimes it had stayed with him for a short period only, sometimes it had extended over days always it brought with it an emotion of excitement and even, if he had analysed it sufficiently, fear. He was suddenly conscious, in the naked spaces of his barely-furnished room, of the personality of his father.
The atmosphere of the place was close on account of the charcoal stove, and the barely-furnished room smelt of some disinfectant. I had sat there for some moments when I heard a door open, and men's voices sounded speaking in English: "Very well, signore," I heard the doctor say. "I will be up at the villa at eleven o'clock." "Good," replied the other.
Let any one in the evening visit the homes of the labouring class in a poor neighbourhood, and he will find, in many cases, a barely-furnished room, a numerous family of small children, perhaps forgetting the pangs of hunger in the obliviousness of sleep, a wife, with care-worn features, sitting in solitary wretchedness, ruminating on wants she knows not how to supply namely, clothes and food for her children on the morrow, and on debts which she has no means of discharging.
The languid Miss Devine had crossed to the piano, where she sat fingering softly the tuneless keys, her back to the cold barely-furnished room. "Sit down!" commanded saucily Miss Kite, indicating with her fan the vacant seat beside her. "Tell me about yourself. You interest me." Miss Kite adopted a pretty authoritative air towards all youthful-looking members of the opposite sex.
Only the lower rooms were habitable, and at a door, on either side of which stood a sentry, my conductor respectfully knocked. "Adelante!" said a rough voice; and we entered accordingly. Before a long table at the upper end of a large, barely-furnished room, with rough walls and a cracked ceiling, sat three men in uniform.
I stood upon the pavement full of anxiety and bewilderment. What could have happened to him? I returned to my rather barely-furnished room at the Hôtel du Midi which overlooked the Place outside the station in the suburb across the river, and sank into a chair to reflect.
His departure seemed the signal for mine. Monsieur Laurentie was not rich enough to feed two idle mouths, like mine and Minima's, and there was little for me to do but sit still in the uncarpeted, barely-furnished salon of the presbytery, listening to the whirr of mademoiselle's spinning-wheel, and the drowsy, sing-song hum of the village children at school, in a shed against the walls of the house.
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