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He smelt strong of Maideary, and I couldn't help thinking as I carried him down that it was like carrying a large bottle full of wine, with a rayther ugly stopper, a good deal out of proportion. When I set him on the door-mat in the hall, he kep me close to him by holding on to my coat-collar, and he whispers: "I ain't 'appy, Magsman." "What's on your mind, Mr. Chops?" "They don't use me well.
But alas for poor Corrie's powers of endurance! no sooner had he extended his chubby form on the door-mat, earnestly wishing, but not expecting, that Alice would come out and find him there, than he fell fast asleep, while engaged in the hopeless task of counting the starry host a duty which he had imposed on himself in the hope that he might thereby be kept awake.
Every woman in it, from the little new Swede stock-girl to Gladys Hemingway, who is only working to wear out her old clothes, was standing with her face toward the elevator, and on her face a look that would make the ordinary door-mat marked 'Welcome' seem like an insult. I kind of smoothed my back hair, because I knew that only one thing could bring that look into a woman's face.
'Can you imagine our Freddy out alone at this hour, trying to 'work off' his papers, because afraid to go home till he has? 'I'd rather not try, answered brother John, winking hard, as he stroked the little head beside him, which, by the bye, looked very like a ragged, yellow door-mat.
He lets everybody that wants to just trample on him and grind their dust into him, and he acts real pleased and grateful." Hayward's face flushed. "Did Mrs. Adkins mention that she was one of the people who used you for a door-mat?" he demanded. Jim threw back his head and laughed like a child, with the sweetest sense of unresentful humor.
And then our landlady gave me notice, because in the broad light of mid-afternoon Fanny had stumbled over the front door-mat on entering the house, and lain there, laughing and singing; she had refused to move, and had had to be dragged upstairs for appearance's sake. The landlady must have occupied ten minutes, I think, in giving me notice.
No then she'd be sorry for me. It's something that belongs to me not another man's shadow. But what I shall never know. And she's prettier than ever, too. Oh, hang it!" His key turned in the lock, and on the door-mat shewed the white square of an envelope a note from the other woman, the one whose profile he had not remembered. She was in Paris for a time.
Once, he said, he had to leave his house at a moment's notice, to take home a sick relation, and left all standing, and on coming back months after found every single stick of furniture just as he left it, and not a single article stolen, except one door-mat; his night watchman had taken it with him to another situation, leaving a humble message to the effect that he had got so accustomed to it that he couldn't sleep without it!
Now, alas! it was absolutely finished. Oh, dear no! 'Gracious me! cried a brass manufacturer, 'there's no handle on the door, and he put one on. An ironmonger added a scraper, and an old lady ran up with a door-mat. Carpenters arrived with a water-butt, and the painters insisted on painting it. Finished at last! 'Finished!
Grim had cheerfully compared Miss Hilda to the queenly Juno, and said that if she would give Biffen's her protection, the house would give the other houses "fits" when the housers came round again; then he put in something about her hair, unconsciously cribbed from Ovid; and something about her walk this I tracked to Horace; and wound up the whole farrago by saying he was ready to be her door-mat and to shield her from the furies, etc., which, I think, Grim genuinely evolved out of his own effervescing breast.
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