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Updated: May 3, 2025
D. B. Knox communicates the following: In a girls' boarding-school several years ago two of the boarders were sleeping in a large double-bedded room with two doors. About two o'clock in the morning the girls were awakened by the entrance of a tall figure in clerical attire, the face of which they did not see.
"But, bless my life, I am keeping you standing here, carpet-bag in hand, all this time! Have you engaged your room?" "No; they say the house is full." "Not quite! Mine is a double-bedded chamber. You shall share it with me, if you like. What do you say?" "Thank you, I should like it very much." "Come in, then, and have a wash and a change of clothes; after which we will have supper.
"Will your story be a long one?" said he to the playwright, when Catherine had conducted them after supper to the double-bedded room, where they were to pass the night. "Long or short, what does it matter, since you must listen to it?" "Because, first, I would make some grog and fill my pipe; otherwise, I would content myself with a cigar." "Take your pipe and make your grog."
The scene is then shifted to the Angel, at Bury, and the double-bedded room with its "horrible dilemma," and It will be noticed that there is nothing of the Great White Horse in the very town. The reason was that the proprietor was disgusted by the unflattering account given of his Inn and must have objected. It winds up with the Fleet scenes, where Mr. Weller, senr.,
There is a very scarce eighteenth-century pamphlet narrating the story of Ambrose Gwinett, the man who, after having been hanged and gibbeted for murdering a traveller with whom he had shared a double-bedded room at a seaside inn, revived in the night, escaped from the gibbet irons, went to sea as a common sailor, and afterwards met on a British man-of-war the very man he had been hanged for murdering.
Ah! the plan had been well laid. After supper, some one spoke of retiring, and then it turned out that there were only two double-bedded rooms in the house. It seemed as though it had been built expressly for the scheme. The innkeeper said that the two nurses might sleep in one room, and Germain and myself in the other. Do you understand, sir?
After renouncing the position, he removed to Springfield to take up the study of the law. An agent from the Post-office Department called on him to settle his accounts; through some oversight he had been left undisturbed for some years. He was living with a Mr. Henry, who kept a store, anterior to his lodging in Mr. Speed's double-bedded room.
During the afternoon the two friends visited Saint Germain, then returned to Paris, and at seven o'clock in the evening arrived at the Tete Noire Hotel at Saint Cloud, where they took a double-bedded room, Castaing paying five francs in advance.
Captain Mathias said this as promptly and positively as though he himself had shown our friends to bed. After a pause he continued "Mr. and Mrs. Harkaway have the first room; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey the second; the third is a double-bedded apartment, one couch being occupied by the American, the other by the two boys." "You seem to have pretty exact information, captain," said Hunston.
'You mean that it is a double-bedded room, and that one of the beds is occupied? The landlord nodded his head, and rubbed his double chin harder than ever. Arthur hesitated, and mechanically moved back a step or two towards the door. The idea of sleeping in the same room with a total stranger, did not present an attractive prospect to him.
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