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Updated: July 23, 2025
He kept house on a green oil-cloth table-cover, one chair, one charpoy, one photograph, one tooth-glass, very strong and thick, a seven-rupee eight-anna filter, and messing by contract at thirty-seven rupees a month. Which last item was extortion. He had no punkah, for a punkah costs fifteen rupees a month; but he slept on the roof of the office with all his wife's letters under his pillow.
Lawrence's logic is beyond me," pursued Diana. "However, we'll obviate the difficulty. I'll have tea out of my tooth-glass" glancing towards the washstand in the adjoining room where that article, inverted, capped the water-bottle "and you, being the honoured guest, shall luxuriate in the cup."
There were few traces of occupation visible; only a pair of felt slippers under the bed, a large bath sponge on the washstand, and a dressing-gown hanging on the nail behind the door. In his tooth-glass by the bedside was a rose Claire had worn and given him. It was put there with meticulous care; its stalk had been re-cut and its leaves freshened.
"Standish wants to know all about life in the Grand Fleet. You two ought to be able to enlighten him a bit between you." Thorogood contemplated the India-rubber Man thoughtfully. "Just joining up? Mouldy and I have been there since January, '15 I'll fetch him." The speaker vanished and returned a moment later with a companion who wore a Lieutenant's uniform, and carried a tooth-glass in his hand.
The darkness had filled with whispers, the sound of trailing rugs, bare feet on bare boards, protests, giggles, and threats such as: "Be quiet, you ass!... Squattez-vous on the floor, then!... I swear you aren't going to sit on my bed!... Mind the tooth-glass," etc.
If it pleased our dear God to take her to Himself, and she was not so young as she had been there was that plate of the four lower ones in the blue tooth-glass, for instance He should find all her belongings fit to meet His eye. 'Swept and garnished' were the words that shaped themselves in her intent brain. 'Swept and garnished for
"But I had this bottle given me, and luckily you've come while there's a drop left. Very glad you have! Very glad you have." Here he poked a little table through the window, and put a bottle and two glasses, one a tooth-glass, upon it. Then he withdrew again to finish shaving. The waiter presently hobbled up with the syphon and third glass.
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