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Chapter 22 A Gritty State of Things Comes on
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Mr. Tartar’s chambers1 were the neatest, the cleanest, and the best-ordered chambers ever seen under the sun, moon, and stars. The floors were scrubbed to that extent, that you might have supposed the London blacks emancipated2 for ever, and gone out of the land for good. Every inch of brass3-work in Mr. Tartar’s possession was polished and burnished4, till it shone like a brazen5 mirror. No speck6, nor spot, nor spatter soiled the purity of any of Mr. Tartar’s household gods, large, small, or middle-sized. His sitting-room7 was like the admiral’s cabin, his bath-room was like a dairy, his sleeping-chamber, fitted all about with lockers9 and drawers, was like a seedsman’s shop; and his nicely-balanced cot just stirred in the midst, as if it breathed. Everything belonging to Mr. Tartar had quarters of its own assigned to it: his maps and charts had their quarters; his books had theirs; his brushes had theirs; his boots had theirs; his clothes had theirs; his case-bottles had theirs; his telescopes and other instruments had theirs. Everything was readily accessible. Shelf, bracket, locker8, hook, and drawer were equally within reach, and were equally contrived10 with a view to avoiding waste of room, and providing some snug11 inches of stowage for something that would have exactly fitted nowhere else. His gleaming little service of plate was so arranged upon his sideboard as that a slack salt-spoon would have instantly betrayed itself; his toilet
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