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Updated: May 9, 2025
I called for the first time upon a man, an actor, who had asked me to come and see him in the little home where he lives with his old father. To my astonishment for the craze, I believe, has long since died out I found the house half furnished out of packing cases, butter tubs, and egg-boxes.
The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. When Carl turned away he said, "I'll see to your team." Alexandra went into the store to have her purchases packed in the egg-boxes, and to get warm before she set out on her long cold drive.
I did not like to suggest to her that before entering upon a difficult task it would be better for young men to ACQUIRE knowledge and experience: that is so unpopular a theory. But the thing that The Amateur put in the front and foremost of its propaganda was the manufacture of household furniture out of egg-boxes.
One could see at a glance that it was made out of egg-boxes, and badly constructed egg-boxes at that egg-boxes that were a disgrace to the firm that had turned them out; egg-boxes not worthy the storage of "shop 'uns" at eighteen the shilling. We went upstairs to my friend's bedroom. He opened the door as a man might open the door of a museum of gems.
About the "corner" there could be no possible doubt. You sat on a corner, you leant against a corner; whichever way you moved you struck a fresh corner. The "cosiness," however, I deny. Egg-boxes I admit can be made useful; I am even prepared to imagine them ornamental; but "cosy," no. I have sampled egg-boxes in many shapes.
Soon their elders turned up, and their father took their last rin to make up the payment which would admit them. In they went, and took possession of their place. The floor of the theatre was divided by little partitions, about a foot or so high, into a vast number of tiny squares, like open egg-boxes.
But into your success, Tom Dick, old friend, do not there creep moments when you would that we could fish up those old egg-boxes from the past, refurnish with them the dingy rooms in Camden Town, and find there our youth, our loves, and our beliefs? An incident brought back to my mind, the other day, the thought of all these things.
Under such circumstances, the sole alternative to the egg-box, or similar school of furniture, would have been the strictly classical, consisting of a doorway joined to architectural proportions. I have from Saturday to Monday, as honoured guest, hung my clothes in egg-boxes. I have sat on an egg-box at an egg-box to take my dish of tea. I have made love on egg-boxes.
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