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Updated: May 21, 2025
And believe me, if I see that old rube hotel-keeper comb his whiskers at the hall hat-rack again he keeps a baby comb in his vest pocket with a lead-pencil and a cigar some drummer gave him if I have to watch him comb that alfalfa again I'll bite his ears off and get pinched by the S. P. C. A.!" With Mrs.
"It is good," I thought, and supported myself for a moment by the hat-rack, for the revulsion of feeling produced a sudden faintness. He saw me, and sprang forward with a beaming yet respectful countenance. "It is very good," I thought.
Sometimes Nana let him jump on the bed, which was fun, because if you sat down exactly right it would bounce you up on your feet again, and if you said "Ah" for a long time while you jumped you got a very pleasing broken vocal effect. He loved to take a big cane from the hat-rack and go around hitting chairs and tables with it and saying: "Fight, fight, fight."
A bamboo cane was dropped loudly into the holder of the hat-rack; a soft hat was thrown down carelessly somewhere it sounded like a wet mop flung into a corner; and there entered a young man straight, slender, keen-faced, with red hair, a freckled skin, large thin red ears, and a strong red mouth. As he stepped forward into the light, he paused, parting the haircut of his eyes and blinking.
Peterson's door recognised him and he was admitted. As he crossed the threshold he saw ominous dark stains. A kitchen candle burned below the hat-rack in the narrow hall, and showed further stains on the oilcloth. From a room on the left hand came the sound of women weeping. The door at the end of the passage was ajar.
There was a cupboard beneath the stairs filled with shabby little boots; there was a hat-rack in the hall covered with shabby little caps.
She did not remain long after what she was pleased to consider a rebuff. "Well, Claire, I see I can't be of much help," she announced as she powdered her nose before the shabby hat-rack mirror and drew on her gloves.... After she was gone Claire found a five-dollar bill on the living-room table.
The moment Haldane finished reading the note he left the room, and his mother heard him at the hat-rack in the hall, preparing to go out. She, supposing that he was again about to seek some of his evil haunts, remonstrated sharply; but, without paying the slightest attention to her words, he departed, and within less than half an hour rang the bell at the parsonage. Dr.
And Thyme, that healthy product of them both, at once younger for her age, and older, than they had ever been, with her incapacity for nonsense, her love for open air and facts that fresh, rising plant, so elastic and so sane she had never given them a single moment of uneasiness. Stephen, close to his hat-rack, felt soreness in his heart.
I passed into a narrow hall, with an empty hat-rack, and so into the surgery. From the back of the house came the sound of a piano scales, played very slowly. The surgery was empty.
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