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Updated: May 16, 2025
The schooner was a wilderness of confusion, with the sails covering, apparently, nine-tenths of the decks, the remaining tenth encumbered by spars, cordage, tangled rigging, chains, cables and the like, all helter-skeltered together in such a haze of entanglements that my heart misgave me as I looked on it.
We brought back the dead and smiled or sighed over them. Old tales, of the winter nights of long ago, were retold with a new interest. The town clock struck nine. We sat in silence as we used to sit, while another sexton tolled off the days of the month after the ringing of the curfew. "Many's th' time ye've helter-skeltered home at th' sound of that bell!" she said.
About the room was the usual clutter of all manner of things in the usual unarranged, "unwomaned" Zone way, which the negro janitor feels it neither his duty nor privilege to bring to order; while on and about my cot and bureau were helter-skeltered the sundry possessions of an absent employee, who had left for his six-weeks' vacation without hanging up his shirt after the fashion of "Zoners."
Better than stewing and fussing about La Salle Street with your mind loaded down with responsibilities and all. This is my idea of life." But an hour later, when Laura who had omitted her ride that morning looked into the room, he was not there. The magazines were helter-skeltered upon the floor and table, where he had tossed each one after turning the leaves. A servant told her that Mr.
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