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Updated: June 16, 2025
Like most slaves of the inkpot, I habitually postpone actual labor as long as possible, and if I were to dine at the garage I should have no excuse for not plunging at once into my novel. The Tyringham people were domiciled in cottages scattered over the estate, though a full staff of house servants was established in the residence.
Torrence, I judged, was suggesting that legal means could be found to expel the old Tyringham employees from the Barton property. "Oh, never in the world! It was quite like Mr. Bashford to want to care for these people in their old age. And" she laughed and turned toward me "they can't be dislodged while Bob lives; and we don't want to part with him just yet."
"Like him! It was the greatest shock of my life. To the best of my knowledge he never knew any women except the widow of his partner in the importing house. He used to dine with her now and then, and I caught him once sending her flowers at Easter probably an annual stunt. She was about eighty and perfectly safe. He spent twenty years in the Tyringham, the dullest and most respectable hotel in the world, and his chief recreation was a leisurely walk in the park before going to bed. You could set your clock by him. Pretty thin picking for a dramatist, I should think. He used to take me to the theatre regularly every other Thursday it was a date and his favorite entertainment was vaudeville with black-face embellishment preferred. You should add that to Japanese pottery and potage
She was simply the jolliest, prettiest girl that had ever crossed my horizon, and to be talking to her across the table gave me thrills compared with which sliding out of clouds in an airplane is only a rocking-chair pastime for old men. The veteran chef of the Tyringham had produced an excellent dinner, though the witch talk made Antoine a trifle nervous in serving it. If he should come "
At any rate the Colonel had not forgotten the son of Tyringham Lane, and the young man had often been to the generous, ugly Victorian house, built when the hardware business made its first success.
What was the head waiter's name who presided with so much stateliness in the dining-room of the Tyringham? I mean the white-haired chap who was so particular about the foot-cushions for the nice old ladies in caps and lavender ribbons and India shawls I think I can work him in somewhere." "That's Antoine, who married the assistant housekeeper at the Tyringham.
This she received with more laughter; Montani amused her immensely, she said. She wasn't in the least afraid of him. Returning to the matter of the luncheon, she suggested the Tyringham. "You know, I want very much to see Mr. Bashford's old home and the place all our veteran retainers came from. At one? yes. Good night!" ... Alice and Mrs. Farnsworth reached the Tyringham on time to the minute.
Nathan Jackson, of Tyringham, was another Yankee who had seen fit to take arms against his countrymen, and when captured he was charged with treason and remanded for trial.
It was highly creditable to the old Tyringham servants that the house was thoroughly habitable. All that need be done before Mrs. Bashford arrived was to lay linen on the beds and take the jackets from the furniture; a couple of hours would suffice, Antoine said. As we were on our way down-stairs the old fellow detained me a moment. "Have you told him about the parties?
I had identified him as an old Tyringham bell-hop, known familiarly as Dutch, before he heard my step and sprang to his feet, grabbing a pitchfork whose prongs he presented threateningly. "Oh, it's you, sir," he faltered, dropping the implement. "Excuse me, sir!" "What's your trouble, Dutch? You're not expecting burglars, are you?" "Well, no, sir, but things on the place ain't what they wuz.
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