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Updated: May 4, 2025
His first step was to have the junction of the lid with the box carefully and effectively caulked with cotton; and when this was done to his satisfaction he caused the exterior of the box to be painted several coats of thick paint, with the object of rendering the wood damp-proof.
She saw Judy's scarlet flush across the table. "Millie," went on Fraulein, "is the owner of a damp-proof hold-all for the bath which is a veritable monument." "Monument?" laughed a German voice apprehensively. "Fancy a monument on your washstand," tittered Jimmie. Fraulein raised her voice slightly, still smiling. Miriam heard her own name and stiffened.
Again he pulled it, and again, for it was a self-cocking weapon, and even there deep down in the water he heard the thud of the explosion of the damp-proof copper cartridges. His lungs were bursting, his senses reeled, only enough of them remained to tell him that he was free of that strangling grip and floating upwards.
It was an edifice built in times when human constitutions were damp-proof, when shelter from the boisterous was all that men thought of in choosing a dwelling-place, the insidious being beneath their notice; and its hollow site was an ocular reminder, by its unfitness for modern lives, of the fragility to which these have declined.
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