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Updated: June 25, 2025
At the entrance of the Bella Union he halted, shook the rain from his hat, scraped the mud from his feet upon a pile of gunnysacks which served as doormats, and went into the brilliant room. Since the temporary closing of the Eldorado, this place had become the most elegant and crowded of the city's gaming palaces.
It was unprecedented. It was revolutionary. It shrieked unto heaven. The poor, despised scrubs were actually holding the haughty 'Varsity men on even terms. More than that; they even threatened to win. They seemed to forget that they were doormats for the "regulars," mere "sparring partners," to be straightened up with one punch and knocked down by the next.
It was lamentable, she decided, that she should have to forgo marital companionship if she were to retain her individuality for the price of her freedom was a monumental sort of loneliness that only the severest mental discipline could overcome. She had seen so many of her school friends smothered in the clutches of bad marriages, worn out beneath their husbands' heels almost like doormats.
After she had gone there was a brief but eloquent silence. "Do, some one, make a joke," whispered Elinor. At that moment a strange looking bob-tailed cat walked by. "There," cried Nancy, and they all instantly burst into hysterical laughter. "In the name of good health and excellent digestion, tell me what are doormats?" asked Billie.
"Girls," said Miss Campbell, in a curious, strained voice, "don't any of you dare to laugh because of course they are all peeping at us from somewhere, but I want you all to make eyes to look at this amazing production." They crowded about her and over her shoulder read the following menu: Soup by egge Eels to rice Seaweed Podadoe Sweete Sponge boiled Doormats a la U. S.
Of course, he accepted. The temptation of a whole evening in the lady's company was too great. But no sooner had he dropped his reply in the corner mail box than he began to consider the cost. The doormats and porch furniture of the neighborhood would go unharmed for aught that he might do. No raids on the flats' garbage cans, no ringing of doorbells, or raining peas through open windows.
She makes a pet of Nora, and the rest of us might be doormats for all the notice she takes of us." "Well, I don't know she's quite civil," said Mrs. Hooper reflectively. She added, after a minute "It's extraordinary how the servants will do anything for her!" "Why, of course, she tips them!" cried Alice, indignantly. Mrs. Hooper shrugged her shoulders.
The number of times in my life that I've fallen over doormats simply because people will not take the trouble to make the necessary depression in the floor with which to contain such a useful domestic receptacle you would scarcely believe. I must have fallen over thousands of doormats in my life," he shouted at the top of his voice.
The scrubs represented only so many doormats to him. Every time he made a play he stopped at the latter end of it for instructions. When he stopped the last time, with nothing before him but the goal, and asked placidly, "Vere skoll I take das ball now, Master Bost?" I thought the coach would expire of the heat. He positively steamed with suppressed emotion.
"Well, S'Richard, not quite all; there's your cousin, sir Mr Mark, sir." "Well, what about him?" "Only this, S'Richard: if you'd speak to him, and tell him as servants ain't doormats, I should be greatly obliged." "What do you mean?" "Only this, S'Richard, as it's getting beyond bearing! I don't want to go complaining to Mr Draycott, sir, but there is bounds to everything!
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