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Therefore it was that Captain Eli determined to keep house by himself, and to do it, as nearly as his nature would allow, as Miranda used to do it. He swept his doors and he shook his door-mats; he washed his paint with soap and hot water; he dusted his furniture with a soft cloth, which he afterwards stuck behind a chest of drawers.
Not all at once, ma'am! AGRAFÉNA KONDRÁTYEVNA. Lord grant we may! As it is, it makes me pine away simply looking at him. BOLSHÓV. Well, what about it, Lázar? PODKHALYÚZIN. Ten kopeks, if you please, I'll give, sir, as we said. BOLSHÓV. But where am I going to get fifteen more? I can't make 'em out of door-mats. PODKHALYÚZIN. Daddy, I can't raise 'em, sir! God sees that I can't, sir!
"Concerts and circuses, and herds, and precipices and door-mats. I feel as though you had presented me with a jig-saw puzzle." "So I have. Is my life anything more than that? I don't even know that all the pieces are there.
I wish they wouldn't be so jolly fond of lying down on the deck like door-mats, and asking you to wipe your shoes on 'em." "They don't." "No, poor beggars, but they're so delighted that they're just like pet dogs. Seem as if they couldn't make enough of you." "Got any news, Bob?" "No.
There's something in a white skin as is too much for them, and you've only got to let 'em see that you don't care a quid o' 'bacco for their blunt wood sticks and knob clubs, to keep 'em where they ought to be, down right down. For they're only good enough to make door-mats to wipe your shoes on. Eat us? I should like to ketch 'em at it!" "I shouldn't, Bob."
Perhaps if I had to live with few servants, or if it were possible, short of existence in a cave, to do without them altogether, I should also do without door-mats, and probably in summer without shoes too, and wipe my feet on the grass nature no doubt provides for this purpose; and meanwhile we know that though he went to the woods, Thoreau came back again, and lived for the rest of his days like other people.
But the Syrian would not be deceived; he would merely see two hundred fresh-water springs two hundred drowsing puddles, as level and unpretentious and unexcited as so many door-mats, and even with the help of the moonlight he would not lose his grip in the presence of the exhibition.
If I were asked why I did not kiss a door-mat, I should say because I do not like to kiss door-mats." . . . . . . "Why did you mention his ugliness?" "It is ridiculous to imagine that any such thing could have occurred under any circumstances." "Then why did you mention his ugliness, I ask you?" "Because you insulted me by an insulting question."
I ain't none of your two-cent chaps!" he roared, visiting his wrath vicariously on her as a representative of the family. "I've got money of my own. Your brother seems to have made door-mats out'n most of the folks round here, but I'll tell ye that he's wiped his feet on me for the last time. You tell him that, dum him!" Her face was white, and her eyes were shining as she looked at him.
Still, there were sights to be seen which were not wholly uninteresting to new comers; for the vast dust cloud was thickly freckled with things strange to the upper air things living and dead, that flitted hither and thither, going and coming, appearing and disappearing among the rolling billows of dust hats, chickens and parasols sailing in the remote heavens; blankets, tin signs, sage-brush and shingles a shade lower; door-mats and buffalo robes lower still; shovels and coal scuttles on the next grade; glass doors, cats and little children on the next; disrupted lumber yards, light buggies and wheelbarrows on the next; and down only thirty or forty feet above ground was a scurrying storm of emigrating roofs and vacant lots.
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