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In lifting the fender to pick it up, a piece of paper caught his eye, which the bedmaker in cleaning the room had swept out of sight in the morning. He looked at it, and saw in legible characters, "Laudanum, Poison." It was the label which had been loosely tied on Bruce's phial, and which had slipped off as he hurried it into his pocket.
Thomasson when her back was towards him were attributed by that gentleman, who should have known the patient, to reflections closely connected with her charms. His rage was great, therefore, when three days after the duel, he awoke, missed her, and found in her place the senior bedmaker of Magdalen a worthy woman, learned in simples and with hands of horn, but far from beautiful.
"You foolish girl, not after me, of course. We called it the 'Pem' because it is close to Pembroke College. I remember " He smiled a little, and twiddled his toes. Then he remembered the bedmaker, and said, "My sock is now dry. My sock, please." "Your sock is sopping. No, you don't!" She twitched the tongs away from him. Mrs.
Why shouldn't he be like other people? This hereditary business is too awful." She shut the door with a sigh. Then she recalled the perfect form of Gerald, his athletic walk, the poise of his shoulders, his arms stretched forward to receive her. Gradually she was comforted. "I beg your pardon, miss, but might I ask how many to lay?" It was the bedmaker, Mrs. Aberdeen.
"Ah, I will take the responsibility for that," said Maud, "and, by the way, hadn't we better begin to look out for a house? I can't live in College, I believe, not even if I were to become a bedmaker?" "Yes," said Howard, "a high-minded house of roughcast and tile, with plenty of white paint inside, Chippendale chairs, Watts engravings.
who, in a voice like the grating of a blunt saw, informed Julian that she was to be his bedmaker, and asked him whether he intended "to tea" in his rooms that evening. "By all means," said Julian; "lay the table for four this evening at eight o'clock, and get me some bread and butter. You'll stay, Hugh, won't you?" "I should like to, very much.
Begone, sir, and take it from me, that the best advice you can give her is to attend me within the hour. Mr. Fishwick looked rather blue. 'If it has nothing to do with her property, he said reluctantly, and as if he had gone too far. 'Property! said Mr. Thomasson, gasping. 'Or her affairs. 'Affairs! the tutor cried. 'I never heard of a bedmaker having affairs.
Kidneys entombed in an omelette, hot roast chicken in watery gravy, a glazed but pallid pie. "And who's to wash it up?" said the bedmaker to her help outside. Ansell had disputed late last night concerning Schopenhauer, and was a little cross and tired. He bounced over to Tilliard, who kept opposite. Tilliard was eating gooseberry jam. "Did Elliot ask you to breakfast with me?"
He heard, in the Court below him, some men laughing a dog was barking. Then he saw that Bunning was on the edge of hysteria. The bedmaker would come in and find him laughing as he had laughed once before. Olva stilled the room with a tremendous effort the floor sank, the table and chairs tossed no longer. "Now, Bunning, tell me quickly. They'll be here to lay lunch in a minute.
Garland was in the habit of borrowing from the girl's mother. And as for the demi-woman David, he had been informed as peremptorily as Pharaoh's baker that the office of housemaid and bedmaker was taken from him, and would be given to this girl till the wedding was over, and Bob's wife took the management into her own hands.
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