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Updated: August 25, 2024
As if with some strange notion of propitiating the powers of darkness these children will often constantly perform some action and will refuse to be happy until they have done so. The same little girl who suffered such torments of anxiety in her parents' absence would always refuse to go to bed unless she had stood in turn on all the doormats on the staircase of her home.
If everybody lets a man use them as doormats, you can't blame him for wiping his feet on them. Tell him that sometime, and see what happens." "Tell him yourself!" said Lily. He had smiled cheerfully. He had an engaging sort of smile. "Maybe I will," he said. "I am a rising young man, and my voice may some day be heard in the land. Sometimes I feel the elements of greatness in me, sweet child.
It would be great fun to replace the bit of porch furniture with it. As for doormats, the preoccupied neighborhood doctor had left his out last Halloween, and could be depended on to do it again; also, there were the apartment entrances, each with a heavy rubber mat in front of the stone steps.
This morning the door-posts up and down my corridor showed not a single pair of trousers; not a pair of boots flattered the lonely doormats.
"Garbage cans and doormats and ringing electric bells are fun, but isn't there a trick we've never worked before?" "Get some grease and spread it over a porch before you ring the bell," suggested Sid. "My big brother, who's away at college, used to do it. Told me so, himself." "I tried that once," Red broke in scornfully. "Nearly broke my back getting away.
"Yes, he would if he's a bull-fighter," scoffed Dick, "and I never heard of there being any matadors in the vicinity of Nestorville." "Lots of doormats, though," grinned Tom. "Say, if you do that again I'll throw you out of the car," cried Jack at this atrocious pun. "Sorry, couldn't help it. Just slipped out," said Tom contritely.
The lines we draw, the moments we choose for cutting this or that off at this or that place, and thenceforth the dubbing it by another name, are as arbitrary as the moments chosen by a South-Eastern Railway porter for leaving off beating doormats; in each case doubtless there is an approximate equity, but it is of a very rough and ready kind. What else, however, can we do?
He remembered when he was five years old in America the faux pas of wiping his feet on a neighbor's doormat that had gotten him into trouble. He had believed then that that was what doormats were for. He again postulated that perhaps there really was no love just people who having no extrinsic value in the universe at large clung to each other for meaning.
This morning the door-posts up and down my corridor showed not a single pair of trousers; not a pair of boots flattered the lonely doormats.
"Dear knows," answered her cousin, "but I think if they must be eaten it would be best to take boiled sponges afterward." The luncheon was purely Japanese, in spite of the English menu, and it was really excellent. "I never thought to come to eels," Miss Campbell observed, but she enjoyed her portion, nevertheless. "Doormats a la U. S." turned out to be a sweet cake with a sugary icing.
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