The Bachelors
“Some bachelors went to church. Some kept open bed all morning and padded to and from it, with trays of eggs and coffee; these men wriggled their toes when they had got back to bed and, however hard they tried, could not prevent some irritating crumbs of toast from falling on the sheets; they smoked a cigarette, slept, then rose at twelve.
Those who were conducting love affairs in service flatlets found it convenient that the maids did not come in with their vacuum cleaners on Sundays. They made... coffee and toast on the little grill in the alcove behind the curtain.
Tim Raymond had a large front furnished room on the first floor of a house in Gloucester Road, Kensington. The carpet was green, the walls a paler green, the sofa and easy chairs were covered with deep brown plush. He had hung on the walls of this furnished room some sea-scape water colours executed by a deceased uncle; he had placed on the lower shelves of a bookcase, behind the glass, three pieces of Georgian silver — a coffee pot, a fruit dish and a salt, relics of a great-aunt; on the upper shelves were some fat light-brown call..MoreLess
Those who were conducting love affairs in service flatlets found it convenient that the maids did not come in with their vacuum cleaners on Sundays. They made... coffee and toast on the little grill in the alcove behind the curtain.
Tim Raymond had a large front furnished room on the first floor of a house in Gloucester Road, Kensington. The carpet was green, the walls a paler green, the sofa and easy chairs were covered with deep brown plush. He had hung on the walls of this furnished room some sea-scape water colours executed by a deceased uncle; he had placed on the lower shelves of a bookcase, behind the glass, three pieces of Georgian silver — a coffee pot, a fruit dish and a salt, relics of a great-aunt; on the upper shelves were some fat light-brown call..MoreLess
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