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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
·
W. N. P. Barbellion
123
At
length,
hearing
the
door
open,
I
ejaculated,
"the
Lord
be
praised,"
rushed
down,
entered
the
bath-room
and
secured
it
from
further
intruders.
I
observed
that
Miss
----
senior
had
been
bathing
her
members,
and
that
the
bath,
tho'
empty,
was
covered
inside
with
patches
of
soap
--unutterably
black!
Oh!
Miss
----!
Dressed
leisurely
and
breakfasted.
When
the
table
was
cleared
wrote
a
portion
of
my
essay
on
Spallanzani....
Then,
being
giddy
and
tired,
rang
for
dinner.
Miss
----
laid
the
table.
She
looked
very
clean.
I
said,
"Good-morning,"
and
she
suitably
replied,
and
I
went
on
reading,
the
Winning
Post.
Felt
too
slack
to
be
amiable.
Next
time
she
came
in,
I
said
as
pleasantly
as
I
could,
"Is
it
all
ready?"
and
being
informed
proceeded
to
eat
forthwith.
In
the
afternoon,
took
a
'bus
to
Richmond.
No
room
outside,
so
had
to
go
inside--curse--and
sit
opposite
a
row--curse
again--of
fat,
ugly,
elderly
women,
all
off
to
visit
their
married
daughters,
the
usual
Sunday
jaunt.
At
Hammersmith
got
on
the
outside,
and
at
Turnham
Green
was
caught
in
a
hail
storm.
Very
cold
all
of
a
sudden,
so
got
off
and
took
shelter
in
the
doorway
of
a
shop,
which
was
of
course
closed,
the
day
being
Sunday.
Rain,
wind,
and
hail
continued
for
some
while,
as
I
gazed
at
the
wet,
almost
empty
street,
thinking,
re-thinking
and
thinking
over
again
the
same
thought,
viz.,
that
the
'bus
ride
along
this
route
was
exceptionally
cheap--probably
because
of
competition
with
the
trams.
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