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Consequently Stalky and Beetle McTurk being of the offensive type that makes ornate toilet under all circumstances drowsed till the last moment before turning out to call-over in the gas-lit gymnasium.
Thus it was she who arranged all the details of the supreme journey to Stafford. Samuel was to drive to Knype, so as to avoid the rigours of the Loop Line train from Bursley and the waiting on cold platforms. At Knype he was to take the express, and to travel first-class. After he was dressed on that gas-lit morning, he learnt bit by bit the extent of her elaborate preparations.
Now he experienced the gladness of release and the feeling of novelty akin to that experienced by an explorer who discovers new lands. It was evening when Nekhludoff arrived in the city, and as he drove through the gas-lit streets to his house, it looked to him like a new city.
His cynical candor allowed that both were sufficiently disreputable to justify grave apprehensions of such a result; accordingly, I contrived to find leisure in my evenings to lessen his ennui, by accompanying him in rambles through the gas-lit streets, or occasionally, for an hour or so, to one of the theatres.
He picked it up and started to push open the door of the rear room; but at the same time, and before he could lay his hand on the knob, the door before him opened suddenly in a flood of light, and a woman stood there, dark against the gas-lit glare, a pistol waveringly extended in the general direction of his head. "Good heavens!" he said, appalled, and dropped his suit case with a crash.
Man is very much what his liver makes him. The streets are cooler, at least, than stuffy gas-lit rooms; and if the public would only roam them in a contemplative spirit, with eyes turned up to the peaceful constellations, the public might fall down an area now and then, but would not much disturb the neighbourhood.
Nance followed her across a barn of a place where men in shirt-sleeves were dragging scenes this way and that. "Mind the steps; they are awful!" warned Birdie, as they descended into a gas-lit region partitioned off into long, low dressing-rooms. "Here's where I hang out. Sit down and let me dude you up a bit. You always did wear your hair too plain.
Susan's appeal brought her back to Boston and the gas-lit parlor. "Forgive you, Susan! There's nothing to forgive. I wanted him to go." "You wanted him to go?" repeated Susan, amazed. She may be pardoned if she did not believe this, but a glance at Cynthia's face scarcely left a room for doubt. "Cynthia Wetherell, you're the strangest girl I've ever known in all my life.
Guess you look as fresh and perky as if you'd taken a new lease of life." He laughed. "The only bath I have taken," he said, "is one of moonlight. You should all be out on the terrace. Far healthier and more enjoyable than these hot, gas-lit rooms, I assure you." "The terrace," said Mrs Jefferson, looking at him with a sudden stern accusing glance. "Ladies and gentlemen, what did I tell you?
Edwin had invariably heard it called `Club' at home, and he called it `Club, and he did not know why. On ten thousand Friday evenings, as it seemed to him, he had gone into the gas-lit office with the wire-blinds, in the Cock Yard. And the procedure never varied. Behind a large table sat two gentlemen, the secretary and a subordinate, who was, however, older than the secretary.
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