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His last letter had been all about a fumed-oak bookcase he had bought for "our" books, and a "natty little hall-stand" he had seen, "a very neat affair with a carved owl on a bracket, holding three hat-brushes in its claws." How she had smiled at that! So like a man to think one needed three hat-brushes! "From the Listening Ear," sang the voices. "Once again," said Miss Meadows.
There were two shelves of calf-bound, marbled prize books between the windows, a pair of limp, battered racquets over the mantel-piece and a fumed-oak shield with the university and college arms contiguously inclined like the hearts of two lovers. Eric shed his coat and waist-coat on the bed, lighted a pipe and prowled ruminatively round the room.
It occurred to her that it would be wise to place on record her protest against her summary dismissal, and she went to the little bookshelf-writing-table where she kept her writing-material to indite the epistle whilst she thought of it. It was one of those little fumed-oak contraptions where the desk is formed by a hinged flap which serves when not in use to close the desk.
I had a mental vision of her interior decorations all fumed-oak wainscotings and buff-leather hangings. Still, I doubt whether their four-o'clock-tea habit is any worse than our five-o'clock cocktail habit. It all depends, I suppose, on whether one prefers being tanned inside to being pickled.
He saw one corner of the white Residency, showing through the sparse isisi palm at the end of the big garden a smudge of green on yellow from this distance. "I hate going even for six months," he said. Hamilton of the Houssas, with laughter in his blue eyes, and his fumed-oak face lean and wholesome it was all a-twitch, whistled with difficulty.
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