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The difficulty of securing good service under these conditions, together with the thousand and one annoyances of living at too close quarters, noisy children and pianos, grumpy janitors, smelly garbage, have led to the latest phase: non-housekeeping flats with daily care of a sort supplied by the janitor if desired, a kitchenette where eggs and coffee for breakfast and dishes for invalids may be prepared, and restaurants galore for other meals.
They were just turning into the smelly galley, when a startled voice sang out forward: "Sail ahoy!" This stopped the trio instantly. "Where away?" called Caradoc. "Dead ahead, sor!" All three turned and went running back updeck. When they regained the bridge, Madden stared in the direction indicated.
Without thinking of my little ones at home, I went into the house, where I found, in a dirty, smelly room, a slatternly woman holding in her arms a child, about two years old, who, I thought, was dead such a ghastly colour eyes turned up; however, the poor little thing moaned and moved and the woman was shaken with sobs the father and two older children standing there, not knowing what to do.
"Well, I don't know that I care, except for your sake," answered Rose Mary unconcernedly, with her eyes still on her task. "We don't any of us like the smell of coal-oil, and it gives Aunt Viney asthma. It would be awfully disagreeable to have wells of it right here on the place. They'd be so ugly and smelly." "But oil-wells mean mean a great deal of wealth," ventured Everett.
The fireplace in the main room is fitted with the best and least smelly kind of gas stove obtainable in 1900.
You are a Non-commissioned Officer, and you must set an example. You must, rahly." When we finally hit the town where our billets were, we found our company quartered in an old barn. It was dirty, and there was a pigpen at one end, very smelly in the August heat. We flopped in the ancient filth.
Disagreeable voyage on the Po. Venice, beautiful but smelly. Copies Tintoret's "Miracle of the Slave." Thunderstorms. Reflections on the Fourth of July. Leaves Venice. Recoaro. Milan. Reflections on Catholicism and art. Como and Maggiore. The Rigi. Schaffhausen and Heidelberg. Evades the quarantine on French border. Thrilling experience. Paris Takes rooms with Horatio Greenough.
I had to stay in that smelly old hole of a hospital and in that bald little prairie city fully a week longer than I wanted to. I tried to rebel against being bullied, even though the hand of iron was padded with velvet. But the powers that be were too used to handling perverse and fretful women.
"He took me along the alleyway and unlocked a door. 'There, says he, 'there's your room. Ye share wi' the Third. It was a smelly little hole, and so dark I could scarcely make out the bunks. "'I haven't a boiler-suit with me, I said, and he looked at me. He was a younger man than I was, and I felt it would be strange to have to take orders from him.
To have to leave my little cottage and take a stuffy, smelly, over-heated hole of an apartment in this Heaven-forsaken, festering Gehenna. To have to mix night after night with a mob who think that life is a sort of St. Vitus's dance, and imagine that they're having a good time because they're making enough noise for six and drinking too much for ten. I loathe New York, Bertie.
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