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Updated: June 3, 2025
One day I cleaned my teeth with a toothbrush; one of the Greek sailors, noticing what I was about, came towards me, and when I laid the brush down for an instant, took it up. I thought he only wished to examine it; but no, he did exactly as I had done, and after cleaning his teeth returned me my brush, expressing himself entirely satisfied with it.
Her taste did not run in the direction of white fox cloaks, named diamonds, and imperial jade plates; she did not use a solid gold toothbrush with emeralds set in the handle, like Ismail Pacha; bridge did not amuse her at all, nor could she derive pleasure from playing at Monte Carlo; she did not even keep an eighty-horse-power motor-car worth five thousand pounds.
I am not a realist, but I would not exchange that homely toothbrush in the Confederate's buttonhole for the most angelic smile that Rothermel's brush could have conjured up. But a soldier must be clad even to sixty rounds of ball cartridge. Small wonder is it then, if only the lightest toothbrush drawn through the buttonhole of his blouse must suffice as an epitome of the refinements of life.
"Begging your pardon, sir," puts in Nimms, "but that could 'ardly be so, sir, seeing as 'ow 'is sticks are still 'ere. That's the strange part of 'is disappearance, sir. 'E never travels without 'is bag of sticks. And they're in that closet, sir." "Couldn't he rent an outfit, or borrow one?" I suggests. "He could," says Mr. Robert, "but he wouldn't. No more than you would rent a toothbrush.
He took it with some natural suspicion, and approached it to his nose. It had the right scent of distant Eau de Cologne and his initials in a corner. Slightly reassured, he raised his eyes to the young man's face. It had rather fawn-like ears, a laughing mouth, with half a toothbrush growing out of it on each side, and small lively eyes, above a normally dressed appearance.
One of the natives thus picked up my comb and toothbrush, but as he did not attempt to conceal them, they were fortunately recovered. After staying with us a short time the men followed the women. They appeared to be strangers who had come from a distance. The natives of the Darling are a clean-limbed, well-conditioned race, generally speaking.
I'm not blaming you. I know you don't know what you're saying. But listen here. You must cut out this kind of thing. You mustn't get these ideas in your head. You stick to your job, and don't butt in on other folks'. Do you know how long you'd stay Prince of this joint if you started in to monkey with my Casino? Just about long enough to let you pack a collar-stud and a toothbrush into your grip.
The matter of having meals at regular hours, or eating on a tablecloth, using a napkin, the use of the bathtub and of the toothbrush, as well as the use of sheets upon the bed, were all new to me. . . . I sometimes feel that almost the most valuable lesson I got at the Hampton Institute was in the use and value of the bath.
"I'll beat you dressing," Take said to Taro. She ran to the bathroom to wash her face and hands, and Taro ran to wash his in a little brass basin on the porch. "Be sure you wash behind your ears, Taro," Take called to him. "And it's no fair unless you brush your teeth hard!" Taro didn't say anything. His toothbrush was in his mouth, and there wasn't room for words too.
But the little store itself, dim even in the centre and dark in the corners was gloomy enough for a country crossroads. "I have to have the bell," said the man behind the counter, reading my thought, "I'm alone here just now." "A toothbrush?" he said in answer to my question. "Yes, I guess I've got some somewhere round here."
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