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Updated: June 1, 2025
"'Haven't you a letter for me? he says. I gave it to him. 'Captain Carville's nephew, I see. Coming for a trip, or are you going to stick to it? I looked at him. "'I'm going to stick to it if it kills me, I said. 'I'm here for keeps. He nodded. He liked that. "'Got any gear? he says. I said, 'I've got nothing except an extra suit and some pyjamas.
Theoretically he hated breakfast in bed, but in practice he had recently found that the inconveniences to himself were negligible compared to the intense and triumphant pleasure which his wife took in seeing him breakfast in bed, in being fully dressed while he was in pyjamas and dressing-gown, and in presiding over the meal and over him.
Before all the servants, mind you, he said to her, 'So they have let you out of prison and now you'd better get out of my house. You know her temper. Before all the servants. Before all the servants, mind you, she accused him of that disgraceful affair in Pont Street when he was turned out in his pyjamas and they half ripped off him by Lord Tango's brother. Tango never knew anything of it.
As the boat drew near I saw that she was steered by a white man, who sailed her beautifully. He was dressed in a suit of dirty pyjamas, and presently, as the wind lifted the rim of the wide Panama hat he was wearing, I caught a glimpse of his features and recognised him Florence Tully, one of the greatest blackguards in the Pacific, and whom I had last seen at Ponape, in the Carolines.
Well, brats that couldn't stand a little jerking were better dead, especially when they screamed and threw fits at the sight of a common snake. Turning into Major Decies' compound and riding up to his porch, the Colonel saw the object of his search, arrayed in pyjamas, seated in his long cane chair beside a tray of tea, toast, and fruit, in the verandah. "Morning, de Warrenne," he cried cheerily.
Barclay entered in his pyjamas. Lowering his voice he said: "Anything happen during the night?" "I don't think so. I slept soundly and heard nothing. You're up early," replied the soldier, picking up the blankets and sheets from the floor and spreading them carelessly on the bed to make it look as if he had used them. "Yes; those infernal birds make such a confounded row.
For a long time I hesitated between a bead necklace and a pair of pyjamas. A few coloured stones on a chain were introduced to the umbrella-less onlooker as "The Latest Fashion," followed by the announcement, superfluous in the circumstances, that it was "Very Stylish." It came as a shock to read further that one could be in the fashion for so little a sum as six shillings.
After I had washed and shaved under the critical eyes of Angèle, Rachel, André and Co., I retired into an inner chamber which had once been an apple store, and went to bed on a straw mattress in the corner. Pyjamas at last! and an untroubled sleep. Occasionally in the night one would wake and, listening at the open window, would hear the distant rattle of rifle fire far away beyond the woods.
Men divided their day between lounging about in their pyjamas and bathing, whilst in the evening they could sit and listen to one of the numerous concert parties who came up the line from Egypt.
When you hear whistles in the night, sit up smartly in your bunk and count them. Should they reach five, draw on your trousers over your pyjamas and leave the train instantly. As a further precaution against accident, sleep with the feet towards the engine if you prefer to have the feet crushed, or with the head towards the engine, if you think it best to have the head crushed.
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