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Updated: June 7, 2025
Scaife pointed out what appeared to be three tall, narrow wardrobes. The rest of the furniture included three much-battered washstands and chests of drawers, four Windsor chairs, and a square table, covered with innumerable inkstains and roughly-carved names. "The beds let down," Scaife said, "and during the first school the maids make them, and shut them up again.
Prince C. but there, I really must not repeat all the things the silly fellow says; he is too foolish and the dear Countess, I fancy, was just the weeish bit jealous" and so on. Poor little woman! I see her now in the shabby grey alpaca, with the inkstains on it. Perhaps a day at "Glorious Goodwood," or anywhere else in the fresh air, might have put some colour into her cheeks.
All the inkstains of his youth had been obliterated, and those nails which had once been bitten to the quick during the throes of financial study were now things of beauty. Lady Lesbia surveyed Mr. Smithson critically, and shuddered at the thought that this person was the best substitute which the season had yet offered her for her ideal knight.
Do you know how easy it is to stain marble? Armande will be on her knees all day with a bottle of turpentine and a bit of flannel." "You are thinking of inkstains, Marian. You forget that it does not rain ink, and that Nelly will hardly select the porch to write her novels in." "Lots of people bring ink on a doorstep. Tax collectors and gasmen carry bottles in their pockets."
Say, while I was scrubbin' off some of the inkstains and smoothin' down my hair with the silver-backed brushes I felt like a young blood gettin' ready for a party. Then after awhile I strolls down to the lib'ry and makes myself to home some more. It's a comf'table place, with lots of big easy-chairs, nice pictures on the wall, and no end of bookshelves.
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