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Updated: May 27, 2025
My host stopped and gave me a lecture on the wonderful order and tidiness they had succeeded in establishing among them. I was a willing listener, for I had already seen enough to be able to certify the truth of what he told me without hesitation. But in the place we were now in, I had to take his word for it, for it was all as black as bilge-water.
The terror that a cold hand might be laid upon me, or a cold breath blow on me, or a corpse-like face bend down through the darkness over me, had broken my bonds! I would meet half-way whatever might be approaching. The moment that my will burst into action the terror began to ebb. "The room in which I slept was a large one, perfectly dreary with tidiness.
The sight of a dirty child crying in the doorway of an untidy house suggests some connection between the wretchedness of the child and the squalor of the home. I often think of William Morris, the great craftsman and charming poet, who had much at heart the happiness of all people, especially the poor, and his exclamation, "My eye, how I do love tidiness!"
He was yet another of those trim, orderly men, who will sacrifice anything not to beauty of that they have in general no sense but to tidiness: tidiness in law, in divinity, in morals, in estate, in garden, in house, in person tidiness is in their eyes the first thing seemingly because it is the highest creative energy of which they are capable.
"What licks me," said I, "is the difference between this and the old-maidish tidiness of his other papers. Anyhow let us go on." In a little while we tried to put the sheets together in their order, going by the grammatical sequence of the end of one page with the beginning of the next, but rarely could we obtain more than three or four of such consecutive pages.
The meals should be laid, waited on and cleared away, and the dishes washed by the children themselves, and they should be responsible for the general tidiness of the room. This involves tea-cloths, mops, dusters, washing bowls, brushes and dustpans.
Then tremulously with the air of one who, just as a matter of spiritual tidiness, would purge her soul of all sad secrets, she lifted her entrancing, tear-flushed face from her strong, sturdy, utterly unemotional fingers and stared with amazing blueness, amazing blandness into the Senior Surgeon's scowling scrutiny. "And I'd named her for you!" she said. "I'd named her Patience for you!"
A thin tweed coat lay in a heap on the carpet he must have flung it off after Gaston went, for the valet, with his innate tidiness, would never have left it lying on the floor. She looked at him hungrily, her eyes ranging slowly over the long length of him and lingering on his bent head. The light from the hanging lamp shone on his thick brown hair burnishing it like bronze.
The three of us I have mentioned sat at last playing cartes in the ferry-house, where a good glass could be had and more tidiness than most of the hostelries in the place could boast of. By the stroke of midnight we were the only customers left in the house, and when, an hour after, I made the move to set out for Glen Shira, John Splendid yoked on me as if my sobriety were a crime.
John's jaw tightened as he saw George and nodded to him, but Rupert's greeting had its usual friendliness. "Hullo, here's George!" They shook hands. "I've not seen you for months. What's the weather going to be tomorrow? It's starlight tonight." "It'll be fine, I think." "That's good. Helen, you've hidden my slippers again, and I told you not to. What a fiend for tidiness you are!"
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