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Updated: June 4, 2025
"But by and by other rumors, darker and more dishonorable to the master and mistress of Shut-up Dubarry, crept out among the people. These rumors were started by the Dubarry servants, in their gossipping with other family servants in the chance meeting in church or village.
Now for the first time taken out of his shut-up nursery life, where he himself had been the principal object where he had no playfellows and no companions save those he had been used to from infancy removed from this, and brought into ordinary family life, the poor child felt he could not but feel the sad, sad difference between himself and all the rest of the world.
"Can't you tell us how to find it?" Mouni searched her memory. "I was not yet thirteen," she said. "It is nine years since I left that place; and I travelled in a shut-up carriage, with a cousin, older than I, who had been already in the house of the lady when I came.
Our position in this matter is in truth rather embarrassing. But the austere aspect of the shut-up "best parlor" of our grandfathers, with its closed blinds and chilly chintz covers, showed that the tables were beginning to turn, and the household to assert its rights and civilly to pay off the guest for his usurpations.
If he had started out even five minutes earlier he would have missed Jim Logan and the adventure in the shut-up house. He would not have known that there was hope indeed, almost a certainty of finding the lost dryad in one of New York's great department stores.
I had no idea which was the door I sought, and it is not pleasant to turn unaccustomed knobs in a shut-up house at midnight, with the rain pouring in torrents and the wind making pandemonium in a half-dozen great chimneys. "But it had to be done, and I went at it in regular order till I came to a little narrow one opening on the turret-stair. This gave me my bearings.
"What do you mean?" The question spoke itself. Annesley's lips felt cold and stiff. Her hands, nervously clasped in her lap, were cold, too, though the shut-up room had but lately seemed hot as a furnace. "I mean, if the girl behaved as I thought she would behave as I think you have behaved he might grow tired of her and the cast-iron coat of virtue he'd put on to please her.
"If we can live through this quarter," said The Maltese Cat, "I sha'n't care. Don't take it out of yourselves. Let them do the lathering." So the ponies, as their riders explained afterwards, "shut-up."
It was his father's trunk, and the first thing that went into it, as the widow lifted the cover, and the smothering shut-up smell struck an old chord of associations, was a single tear-drop. How well she remembered the time when she first unpacked it for her young husband, and the white shirt bosoms showed their snowy plaits! O dear, dear!
"She was called 'contumacious lady, or something of that kind. She had a mouth and staring eyes, like ours, and a great balloon at the back of her head, and something like a shut-up umbrella in front; there were a lot of dangling bits of seaweed hanging about her.
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