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Updated: May 17, 2025
If anything was missing at the old farmhouse clothes-brush, soap, comb or other articles of daily use some one almost always would exclaim, "Look in Bethesda!" or "I left it in Bethesda!" Bethesda was one of those household words that you use without thought of its original significance or of the amused query that it raises in the minds of strangers.
Dale has her little tempers, though she's a very good lady; and Madame Hazeldean is rather high, and has a spirit. But Miss Jemima is so soft: any one could live with Miss Jemima, as Joe and the servants say at the Hall." "Indeed! get my hat out of the parlour, and just bring a clothes-brush, Lenny. A fine sunny day for a walk."
"I do say," said Malka, unconsciously taking up the clothes-brush and thumping with it on the table to emphasize the outrage. "I told her that when Yechezkel cried so much, it would be better to look for the pin than to dose the child for gripes. 'I dressed it myself, Mother, says she. 'Thou art an obstinate cat's head. Milly, says I. 'I say there is a pin. 'And I know better, says she.
Ulick told an amusing story how he had once called on Hermann Goetze to ask if he had read the book of his opera. "He'd just gone into an adjoining room to fetch a clothes-brush he had taken off his coat to brush it but the moment he saw me, he whipped out his handkerchief and said that he must go to the dentist."
"It was impossible to keep anything to myself. The children pulled my books to pieces to look at the pictures; and an impudent, bare-legged Irish servant-girl took my towels to wipe the dishes with, and my clothes-brush to black the shoes an operation which she performed with a mixture of soot and grease.
You are reading too many sensational novels and seeing too many sensational films." She walked briskly into her bedroom, unhooked a suit from the wardrobe and laid it on the bed. At that moment there came a knock at the door. She put down the clothes-brush which was in her hand, walked out into the hall, opened the door and stepped back. Three men stood in the passage without.
Nor was the victim passive; debarred writing materials, he cut the rims off several copies of the Times, and secreted them: then catching sight of some ink-blots on the back of Frank's clothes-brush, scraped them carefully off, melted them in a very little water, and with a toothpick scrawled his wrongs to the Commissioners; he rolled the slips round a half-crown, and wrote outside, "Good Christian, keep this half-crown, and take the writing to the Lunacy Commissioners at Whitehall, for pity's sake."
Then he got very angry, and not satisfied with an unsubstantial object for his holy indignation to vent itself upon, he ran for the clothes-brush, and gave it a worse cuffing and kicking than before; ending with a solemn inquiry whether I worshipped crosses, etc., when I went to church. I trembled to give the encouragement I longed to bestow.
No surprise of strangeness could equal the surprise of that complete familiarity. There was the bust of Chalmers near the stair- railings, there was the clothes-brush in the accustomed place; and there, on the hat-stand, hung hats and coats that must surely be the same as he remembered.
"Stay here for the night," Bell growled, sotto voce. "Stay here till to-morrow morning and hear something from Van Sneck's lips that will finish his interesting career for some time. Medical treatment be hanged. A clothes-brush and some soap and water are all the physic that he requires." Presently Henson professed himself to be better.
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