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She could not bear not to meet her letters at once; or suppose Edmund and Gilbert should return to an empty, unaired house, and she thought herself selfish, when it might do so much good to Sophy, &c., &c., &c. till Mr. Ferrars, going home for a night, agreed with Winifred, that domineering would be the only way to deal with her.
He broke his way in by the window with the loosened shutter and passed through the dimness of long rooms, bare and chilly, his steps loud on the uncarpeted floors. The place was damp and had the musty smell of a house long unaired and unoccupied. The double doors into the dining room were jammed and he had to wrench them open; in the pantry a windowpane was broken and the rain had seeped in.
And all that had been to her like prison out there, and all that she had loved, stole up on the breath of the unaired morning, and kept beating in her face, fluttering at the white linen above her heart like the wings of birds flying. The first morning song ceased, and at the silence the sun smiled out in golden irony, and everything was shot with colour. A wan glow fell on Mrs.
The dark passages beyond, smelling of escaping gas and damp straw, of unaired rooms and plumbing and fresh paint, were perfumed with romance to her, as were the little dressing rooms with old photographs stuck in the loosened wallpaper and dim initials scratched on the bare walls, and odd wigs and scarfs and paint jars littering the shelves.
They were seated presently in the unaired plush-and-cherry, Nottingham-and-Axminster parlor of a small-town hotel. "Hester," he said, "you're like a vision come to earth." "I'm a bad durl," she said, challenging his eyes for what he knew. "You're a little saint walked down and leaving an empty pedestal in my dreams." She placed her forefinger over his mouth. "Sh-h!" she said.
But she had long known now that she wanted to kiss, not his forehead, but his lips. He was there in her life a fire in a cold and unaired house; it had even become hard to understand that she could have gone on all these years without him.
Age had developed and darkened and rendered visible all the natural irregularities in the wood, just as it had brought out and strengthened the dry-woody, close, unaired, penetrating scent which permeated the meeting-house and gave it the distinctive "church smell."
But at that he had somewhat irritably protested: he remembered that, for the first time, they were both rather irritable, and vaguely disposed to resist one another's suggestions. His feet were wet, and he was tired of walking, and sick of the smell of stuffy unaired theatres, and he had said he must really get back to write some letters and so they had kept on to the hotel...
A few words upon bedsteads and bedding; and principally as regards patients who are entirely, or almost entirely, confined to bed. Feverishness is generally supposed to be a symptom of fever in nine cases out of ten it is a symptom of bedding. The patient has had re-introduced into the body the emanations from himself which day after day and week after week saturate his unaired bedding.
They arrive with soft bodies and unaired souls. I had this vividly brought home to me by a man on a train among the Selkirks.
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