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"He he's sitting downstairs in my room with a paper cap on his head and a fire-shovel in his hand, and he he says he's the the Emperor of China." "He? Who?" inquired her husband. "Mr. Sad-Sadler," replied Mrs. Hatchard, almost strangling him. "He made me kneel in front o' him and keep touching the floor with my head." The chair-bedstead shook in sympathy with Mr. Hatchard's husbandly emotion.
There sat Theodore at the table, finishing the last morsel of pie, whilst the chair-bedstead lay in a tangled heap upon the floor.
"Eyebrows a little deeper, and you must note the walk, George. Now please step into the next room and change clothes with this gentleman, Mr. Courage." I did as I was told. The next room I found was a most delightfully furnished sitting-room, with a chair-bedstead in the corner, and a dressing-room and bathroom opening out from it. "You don't wear an eyeglass, Mr. Courage?" my companion asked.
"He he's sitting downstairs in my room with a paper cap on his head and a fire-shovel in his hand, and he he says he's the the Emperor of China." "He? Who?" inquired her husband. "Mr. Sad-Sadler," replied Mrs. Hatchard, almost strangling him. "He made me kneel in front o' him and keep touching the floor with my head." The chair-bedstead shook in sympathy with Mr. Hatchard's husbandly emotion.
He threw himself upon his chair-bedstead, and lay for more than an hour in torpor of body and mind. But before he could sleep he must eat. Though it was cold, he could not exert himself to light a fire; there was some food still in the cupboard, and he consumed it in the fashion of a tired labourer, with the plate on his lap, using his fingers and a knife. What had he to do with delicacies?
He pencilled a list of the articles he must retain for his own use; it would of course be cheaper to take a bare room than furnished lodgings, and every penny he could save was of importance to him. The chair-bedstead, with necessary linen and blankets, a table, two chairs, a looking-glass strictly the indispensable things; no need to complete the list.
What's he going to do then? 'He'll have to sleep on the chair-bedstead, here in the kitchen. That is, if I have him in the 'ouse at all. And I don't know yet as I shall. 'Have you got enough money to go on with? Alice asked. 'Dick sent me a pound this morning. I didn't want it' 'Has he been to see you yet, mother? The old woman shook her head. 'Do you want him to come, or don't you?
The only difference I did make in our mode of life was that I no longer gave him bed and board at the hostelry where I lodged in Passy, but placed the chair-bedstead in the anteroom of the office permanently at his disposal, and allowed him five sous a day for his breakfast.
I was going through the antechamber with a view to going out into the street for a little fresh air when something in the aspect of the chair-bedstead on which that abominable brute Theodore had apparently spent the night attracted my attention.
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