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Updated: June 21, 2025
Entering one of the sleeping-rooms, he discovered the celebrated beauty, sound asleep, in the four-poster. "This must be a frame-up," he observed. "I see it all. If I wake her up, I shall have to marry her." He was about to pass down the stairs, when a voice stopped him. "Well, why not?" said the voice. "The young woman has not received a modern education.
The novels Isabelle had been skimming, the gold service of her dressing table, the great four-poster with its deeps of transparent white embroideries over white, all spoke of the beautiful woman who had spent so many hours here.
He picked it up, and, turning, cast a searching look around the room. Across the end of the great four-poster bed hung the black lace gown she had worn the previous evening, but the bed itself was undisturbed. He saw in a moment that it had not been slept in. Sharply he turned to the envelope in his hand, and ripped it open. Something bright rolled out upon the floor. He stopped it with his foot.
With a billabong at the door, a bathroom was easily dispensed with; and as every one preferred the roomy verandahs for lounging and smoking, the House had only to act as a dressing-room for the hosts and a dining-room for all. The meals, of course, were served on the dining-table; but no apology seemed necessary for the presence of a four-poster bed and a washing stand in the reception-room.
She had reserved her mother's old alcoved bedroom with its mahogany four-poster for her own use, but the rest of the second-story rooms she had fitted for her English cousins, that they too might have headquarters in town. Neither appeared to be in any haste to visit the city of their ancestors.
The room was large and poorly lighted. I lay in my clothes on an old four-poster bed. And my enemies were standing over me in a group. "I hope you are satisfied!" sneered Joaquin Santos, with a flourish of his eternal cigarette. "I am. You don't do murder in my house, wherever else you may do it."
The standing four-poster of the country offers only cross-planks covered with the thinnest matting. As the ancient joke of many a lugubrious African traveller says, it combines bed and board. Next morning, despite the chilly damp and the 'old-woman-cannot-see, as the Scotch mist is here called, our men were ready within reasonable limits.
Whatever it was, it doesn't help much now. If it had only been the key! Good gracious! is that a rat?" Both girls jumped to their feet and stood listening to the strange sounds that came from under the valance hanging about the bottom of the great four-poster bed. It was a curious, intermittent, irregular sound, as of something being pushed about the floor.
His bed, a four-poster, was luxurious indeed after his old bunk in the Hannah Hoo, and he betook himself to it early. Yet he did not sleep well.
Milburgh slept on a large wooden four-poster. "He's a luxurious devil," said Whiteside. "Look at the thickness of those box springs." He tapped the side of that piece of furniture and looked round with a startled expression. "A bit solid for a box spring, isn't it?" he asked, and continued his investigation, tearing down the bed valance.
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