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There was a place for every one, and every one was in its place. There was a look of tidiness about the collection which was very characteristic of the man. Order was one of the rules which he rigidly observed, and he endeavoured to enforce it upon all who were in his employment. He proceeded to dilate upon the importance of the uniformity of screws.
All that English people instinctively resent in Irish character its dreamy or laughing indifference toward the ordinary business virtues, thrift, prudence, tidiness, accuracy they had been accustomed to, even where they had not been infected with it, from their childhood.
"Will you give me a little kiss, or am I still a nuisance?" "You didn't say any time, so I chanced half-past one," Eric answered. "If you'd told me to come at two, you'd still have been ten minutes late, wouldn't you?" he added with a laugh. "Lady Barbara, your conception of tidiness " She opened her eyes wide at him in unfeigned surprise. "My dear, but you should see my bedroom!" she suggested.
They know absolutely nothing about hair or the necessity for special tidiness on Sundays. All the same, I'm afraid we shall have a headache if we don't let a reef out somewhere. Sit still a moment, Ann. I was always intended for a barber."
As we drove through the line of dung-heaps and liquid manure rising above what looked like barns, I was ill-prepared for the comfort and tidiness prevailing within. What a change when the door opened, and our neatly dressed entertainers ushered us into their dining-room! Here, looking on to a well-kept garden was a table spread with spotless linen, covers being laid as in a middle-class house.
Nothing would make them tidy," and Rusha pointed to a hopeless stain and to the frayed edges past mending. "I hate tidiness. Only Puritan rebels are tidy!" "We are not Puritans!" cried Rusha. Emlyn laughed. "Hark at your names," she said. "And what's that great rebel rogue of a brother of yours?" "Oh! he is Jeph! He ran away to the wars!
If she could have seen what happened beyond that closed door, would it have opened her eyes, or made her happy? Who can tell? For Higgins, with methodical tidiness, had emptied the pockets of the coat his master had worn in the day, and there on top of a letter or two and a card-case was one tiny pink rose, a wee bud that had become detached from the torn bunch.
There was a tidiness about the inclosure peculiar to places inhabited by women. It added grace even to military appointments. "You miss the swan, madame," noted Klussman. "Le Rossignol is out again." "When did she go?" "The night after my lord and you sailed northward. She goes each time in the night, madame." "And she is still away?" "Yes, madame." "And this is all you know of her?"
Printed music of the last century, and manuscript music of the previous evening, lay there in such quantity as to endanger the tidiness of a retreat which was indeed only saved from a chronic state of litter by a pair of hands that sometimes played, with the lightness of breezes, about the sewing-machine standing in a remote corner if any corner could be called remote in a room so small.
Moreover, the tireless assiduity and precision which she brought to her housework and, above all, the grim passion of her intellectual struggles created an atmosphere of physical and spiritual tidiness about her that inspired me with something like reverence. Living in that atmosphere seemed to be making a better man of me Attempting a lark with her, as I had done with Mrs. Dienstog and Mrs.
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