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Updated: May 24, 2025
Cogan felt as proud as could be of them, in their fresh-washed suits of muster white with the beautiful blue collars and cuffs. Section after section was piled solid with them, and here and there Cogan saw an old shipmate. Just to look at them made Cogan homesick.
The morning sunlight was just creeping into the room, and the air was still cool with the night and fresh-washed by the storm. "Miss Agnes," she demanded, standing over me, "did you let the cat out last night?" "I brought him in before I went to bed." "Humph!" said Maggie. "And did I or did I not wash the doorstep yesterday?" "You ought to know. You said you did."
They reached the corner house in an angle of a dismal street, through the open door of which two men had just gone in. Following, they ascended some wooden, fresh-washed stairs, and entered a large boarded room smelling of sawdust, gas, stale coffee, and old clothes. It was furnished with a bagatelle board, two or three wooden tables, some wooden forms, and a wooden bookcase.
"Looks like to me you are mighty kind to strangers." The ineradicable dignity of the true mountaineer, who has always been as good as the best in his environment, preserved Johnnie from any embarrassment, any tendency to shrink or cringe. Her beauty, in the fresh-washed print gown, was like a thing released and, as Miss Sessions might have put it, rampant.
His face had been fresh-washed, or, rather, drenched, for his shirt and shoulders were wet. His pale hair lay damp and plastered against his forehead, and was darkened by oozing blood. Both arms hung limply by his side. But his face was composed, and he even grinned. "It's all right," he reassured Saxon. "The joke's on me. Somewhat damaged but still in the ring."
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