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To her, also, home meant a bed-sitting room "over there," as she indicated with a wave of the little fawn glove embracing the north-west district generally; and he did not press her for any more precise address. It was easy enough for him to picture it: the mean, close-smelling street somewhere in the neighbourhood of Lisson Grove, or farther on towards the Harrow Road.
Accustomed as Mavis had been of late to bed-sitting rooms or shabby lodging-house parlours, her first glimpse of Mrs Hamilton's richly-furnished drawing-room almost took away her breath.
Occupying his present bed-sitting room he should remain for twenty-one shillings a week instead of twenty-five. Unfortunately, at breakfast the next morning their evil genius prompted Mr. Spinks and Mr. Soper to display enormous appetites, and Mrs. Downey, to her everlasting shame, was herself tempted of the devil.
A door near to the end, and on the right, proved to open into a square room quite simply furnished in the manner of a bed-sitting room. A little bathroom opened out of it in one corner. The walls were distempered white, and there was no window. Light was furnished by an electric lamp, hanging from the center of the ceiling.
A child could tell at a glance that it was bristling with bed-sitting rooms. Mike knocked at the first door over which a card hung. There is probably no more depressing experience in the world than the process of engaging furnished apartments. Those who let furnished apartments seem to take no joy in the act. Like Pooh-Bah, they do it, but it revolts them.
In a long, grey street of dismally respectable appearance they found what they were looking for, a bed-sitting room furnished, advertised on a card in the window. The door was opened by the landlady, a tall woman of narrow build, with a West-Country accent, and a rather hungry sweetness running through her hardness.
The bachelor girl, in her bed-sitting room, in her studio, in her flat, will still see in the shadows the vision of the home, will still hear in the silence the sound of children's voices, will still dream of the lover's kiss that is to open up new life to her. She is not quite so unsexed as you may think, my dear womanly madame.
It was all very pleasant and soothing after the pantomime dame and her stuffy bed-sitting room. He sat down on a bench beside the second eleven telegraph-board, and looked across the ground at the pavilion. For the first time that day he began to feel really home-sick.
Mike felt that he was in for it now. He had not sufficient ease of manner to back gracefully away and disappear, so he said that there was something. In point of fact, he wanted a bed-sitting room. 'Orkup stays, said the pantomime dame. Which Mike interpreted to mean, would he walk upstairs? The procession moved up a dark flight of stairs until it came to a door.
Presently, in the cosiness of the bed-sitting room, Miss Nippett became confidential. "Are you ambitious?" she asked. "I don't know," replied Mavis. "I mean REELLY ambitious." "What do you mean by that?" "Well, like I am. I'm reelly ambitious." "Indeed!" "I want to be a partner in 'Poulter's. Not for the money, you understand, but for the honour. If I was made a partner, I'd die 'appy. See?"
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