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... his idea he was carried down the hard, dean, unused-looking hall into the bathroom. Though the house was not large it had, like all houses on Floral ... ...s not large it had, like all houses on Floral Heights, an altogether royal bathroom of porce- lain and glazed tile and metal sleek as silver. The towe... ...he Babbitt whose god was Modern Appliances was not pleased. The air of the bathroom was thick with the smell of a heathen tooth- paste. “Verona been a... ... some confounded stinkum stuff that makes you sick!” 7 Sinclair Lewis The bath-mat was wrinkled and the floor was wet. (His daughter Verona eccentric... ...as wrinkled and the floor was wet. (His daughter Verona eccentrically took baths in the morning, now and then.) He slipped on the mat, and slid agains... ...could not have told whether he was in a city of Oregon or Georgia, Ohio or Maine, Oklahoma or Manitoba. But to Babbitt every inch was individual and s... ...uldn’t you and I make some excuse—say busi- ness in New York—and get up to Maine four or five days before they do, and just loaf by ourselves and smok... ...he way Zilla does, but she’d worry. She’d say, ‘Don’t you want me to go to Maine with you? I shouldn’t dream of going unless you wanted me;’ and you’d... ...al will fall through, and there’ll be nothing for us but to go on ahead to Maine. I—Paul, when it comes right down to it, I don’t care whether you bus...

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...riod and of a good while later had more heart for play than work. Cricket, bathing, and boating were his delight; and though his school-work was consc... ...s of tutorship for the holi- days, from Mr. Dugdale and the Marchioness of Bath. The question where his university life was to be spent began to come ... ...y hand as of old with a cricket bat. Then I do rather have good salt-water baths, and see glorious sunsets and sun- rises, and star-light nights, and ... ...thing to do but eat, drink, and sleep, and lie on the warm coral rock, and bathe in the surf. ‘There was no shyness on the part of the children, dear ... ...very clear and sweet, and one of our little guides soon had a good shower- bath, standing under the shoot and then walking in the sun till in a few mi... ...he effect, i.e. men are not generally religious in England or Mota. I have Maine’s Book of “Ancient Law” among the half-dozen books I have brought on ... ...Mankind,” Dollinger’s “First Ages of the Church,” and “Ecce Homo.” I tried Maine’s “Ancient Law,” but it is too tough for the tropics, unless I chance...

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...body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed; a fragile chi... ...ght-eyed crea- tures—the tam htab, who is woolly and blue and lives in the bathroom, and runs rapidly to warm small feet; the ferruginous oil stove, w... ... a heavy, “Oh, these Dutch farmers don’t want sympathy. All they need is a bath and a good dose of salts.” 17 Sinclair Lewis Carol must have flinched... ...and the Minnesota, and recalled the men who had come here eighty years ago—Maine lumbermen, York traders, soldiers from the Maryland hills. “It’s a go... ...rom St. Paul to Chi- cago. But now that they had become her own people, to bathe and encourage and adorn, she had an acute and uncomfortable interest ... ...after this long trip. You’ll feel better when you get home and have a good bath, and put on the blue negligee. That’s some vampire costume, you witch!... ...ldiers as a defense against the Sioux. The four cab- ins were inhabited by Maine Yankees who had come up the Mississippi to St. Paul and driven north ...

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...’s blood to her heart with such violence that the surface of her body felt bathed in ice. From that hour not a day had passed that the sense of secret... ...“I will take you to the Chateau d’Herouville, and there you shall take sea-baths to strengthen you.” “Is that true, father? You are not laughing at yo... ...atural. But in Gabrielle’s veins there was also the blood of “la belle Ro- maine,” which had flowed there from two generations, giv- ing to this young...

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...s,—Sarthe, Orne, Mayenne, Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbihan, Loire-Inferieure, and Maine-et-Loire. “These legions,” said the law, “will be specially employed ... ...ion, with an accent which proved his difficulty in speaking French, “there Maine begins” (pointing with his huge, rough hand towards Ernee), “and Bret... ...om he believed to be hidden like brigands all around him; but his face re- mained impassible. Knowing that the eyes of the soldiers were turned upon h... ...the improvised ambulances, and descended the slope of the mountain towards Maine, where the beautiful valley of La 34 The Chouans Pelerine, a rival t... ...and and his heavy carbine in the other, dumpy and thickset as a gnome, and bathed in that white light the shadows of which give such fantastic aspects... ...ocs and the winding gorges of the Val de Gibarry, the crests of which were bathed in the misty glow of the setting sun. She was almost frightened by t... ...bserving that she must be in great need of it. 178 The Chouans “No, no; a bath, a bath!” cried Mademoiselle de Verneuil. “I must dress at once.” Fran... ...to unpack the most elegant of the dresses she had brought with her. Having bathed and breakfasted, Marie made her toilet with all the minute care whic... ... by the power of a loud voice and by many gestures, the vehemence of which bathed the orator in perspiration, produced, apparently, very little effect...

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...s. The brief phase of hope that followed the turn of the fighting upon the Maine, the hope that after 51 H G Wells all the war would end swiftly, dra... ...ll, and return the next morning. Dunk, his valet-butler, found him already bathed and ready for a cup of tea and a Bradshaw at half-past seven. He wen... ...id the doctor, smiling his teeth, with some- thing of the manner of an old bathing woman who tells a child to jump. “Well, I’m run down and—worried.” ... ...ling wallpaper, kitchens for the most part underground, and either without bathrooms or with built-out bathrooms that were manifestly grudging after- ... .... But they quarrelled a good deal, he could hear, about the use of the one bathroom—there was never enough hot water after the second bath. And Miriam... ...he harvest sacrifice and turned from a plain teacher into a horrible blood bath and a mock cannibal meal, was surely the supreme feat of the ironies o...

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...er outside, and within like solid smoke. Indeed the children, who had been bathing in smoke all day, had brought in the air of it with them; but their... ...lutely shed tears because Miss Fosbrook declared that Frankfort WAS on the Maine. For the first time she had her grammar turned back upon her hands. H... ...home, down to poor little china Mildred, whose proper dwelling-place was a bath, and who had with great difficulty been put into petticoats enough to ...

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...ness what they lack in extent, constitute of come but a scanty domain. But bathed, as we found them, in the autumn sunshine, and doubly pri- vate from... ...er—the water of the Indre—surrounds it, but it is only on one side that it bathes its feet in the moat. On one of the others there is a little terrace... ...here with a smart little chateau. The old capital of the prov- ince of the Maine, which has given its name to a great American State, is a fairly inte... ...esaw that I should have contented myself before th e end of the day. I re- mained at the White Horse only long enough to discover that it was an excep... ...rounded by a huge, deep moat, which originally contained the waters of the Maine, now di- vided from it by a quay. The water-front of Angers is poor,—... ...e as far as a big Etablissernent des Bains. It was too late in the year to bathe, and the Etablissement had the bankrupt aspect which belongs to such ... ...mes is easily ornamental. What nobler ornament can there be than the Roman baths at the foot of Mont Cava- lier, and the delightful old garden that su... ... Rome and of the French eighteenth century; for the remains of the antique baths are in a measure incorporated in the mod- ern fountains. In a corner ...

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...oicings by command, and only the expected rejoicings were spoken of. M. du Maine wished to marry. The King tried to turn him from it, and said frankly... ...to make a lineage. But pressed M. by Madame de Maintenon, who had educated Maine; and who felt for him as a nurse the King resolved to marry him to a ... ...rince was greatly pleased at the project. He had three daughters for M. du Maine to choose from: all three were extremely little. An inch of height, t... ...rtres. Ma- dame de Saint-Vallery was appointed lady of honour to Madame du Maine, and M. de Montchevreuil gentleman of the chamber. This last had been... ...im the whole of those letters. At this she almost died, and threw herself, bathed in tears, at the feet of the King, scarcely able to articulate. Then... ...ed to learn things no one else dared to tell him. This Lavienne had been a bath-keeper much in vogue in Paris, and had become bath-keeper to the King ... ...f boiled her thigh one day in the Seine, near Fontainebleau, where she was bathing. The river was too cold; she wished to warm it, and had a quantity ... ...main, and the vast plain which is at the bottom, where the Seine winds and bathes the feet of so many towns, and so many treasures in quitting Paris. ... ...ht he had an attack of a disease to which he was subject, so that he had a bath prepared for him, into which he got towards the end of the morning. Al...

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...old precision made itself felt throughout. Tourists in Normandy, Brittany, Maine, and Anjou must all have seen in the capitals of those provinces many... ...ad. She confided her ills to the Chevalier de Valois, enumerating her foot-baths, and consulting him as to refrigerants. On such occasions the shrewd ... ...T reville) “to sleep.” How many ideas in those few words! The old maid was bathed in hope. “Will you put him in the green chamber?” “The bishop’s room... ...d that such an occasion demanded a painstaking toilet; he therefore took a bath and groomed himself with extraordinary care. For the first and last ti...

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...imself, the highest honour of the French noblesse. According to Lacroix du Maine, Montaigne, upon the death of his eldest brother, resigned his post o... ...d political condition at that period, as well as with the character of its baths. The passage of Montaigne through Switzerland is not without interest... ...the circumstances connected with his daily routine, his habit of body, his baths, and the rest. It was no longer the journal of a traveller which he k... ...e’s Travels, which have lately been found; there is little in them but the baths and medicines he took, and what he had everywhere for dinner.”—H. Wal... ... here, that he had omitted, to his regret, to do so in his visits to other baths, which might have saved him the trouble of writing at such great leng... ... others, and M. de Mercure is to join him. The report goes also that M. du Maine is about to take the command of all the forces they have collected in... ...rson who was to execute the business (who was a gentle- man of Anjou or of Maine, and who to this effect ordinarily frequented this prince’s house), d... ...ture has bestowed. He whom the Poles have elected for their king,—[Stephen Bathory]— since ours came thence, who is, indeed, one of the greatest princ... ...very shirts. The news of this inhuman usage being brought to those who re- mained behind, the greater part of them resolved upon sla- very and some ma...

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...ttle spared in France, that land of jest and sarcasm. Half dead he reached Maine, where, by some accident of the civil war, the revolutionary governme... ...im. The Lenoncourt family were nobly generous to him, and with them he re- mained some months, struggling to hide his sufferings dur- ing that first p... ...ld the hours from the clock-tower of Sache. During those hours of darkness bathed in light, when this 45 Balzac sidereal flower illumined my existenc... ...weighed nothing; I did not walk, I flew. That look I carried within me; it bathed me with light just as her last words, “Adieu, monsieur,” still sound... ...a view?—all harmony to the eye, with that winding river where the soul may bathe among the ash-trees and the alders. See the dif- ference of taste! T ... ...ail me. Yes, sometimes I am beaten. For want of rest—I mean repose—and sea-baths by which to recover my ner- vous strength, I shall perish. Monsieur d... ...t time an infinite sweetness, which to a nature bruised as mine was like a bath to a weary body; the soul is refreshed in every fibre, comforted to it... ...worth at least twenty-four thousand francs a year. Gravelotte, the farm in Maine, which Monsieur de Mortsauf had recovered after the emigration, was r... ... The fields were bare, the leaves of the poplars falling, the few that re- mained were rusty, the vine-stalks were burned, the tops of the trees were ...

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...from some Northern country; I won’t say which.” “Perhaps from the State of Maine,” said Rowland. “No, she ‘s not an American, I ‘ll lay a wager on tha... ...ve an excellent account of themselves. Madame Grandoni had been taking sea-baths at Rimini, and Miss Blanchard painting wild flowers in the Tyrol. Her... ...ake you smile! Nothing was spared; if I had been told that she must have a bath every morning of molten pearls, I would have found means to give it to... ... to have heard the sandaled tread of the good brother, but as the monk re- mained watching him, he at last looked up. It was not the ignoble old man w... ...alls of vine- yards, through little hamlets propped on a dozen arches, and bathing their feet and their pendant tatters in the gray-green ripple; past... ...ment of superb health, and may be seen every evening at the Casino, at the Baths of Lucca, confiding to every new-comer that she has mar- ried her dau...

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...ls, that striue the rule to get Of all the heard, meete with so hideous maine, That both rebutted, tumble on the plaine: So these two c... ...ell seeing, much the same enuyde, And ran at him with all his might and maine; But shortly was likewise seene lying on the plaine. Wher... ...me feend This mischiefe framd, for their first loues defeature, To bath their hands in bloud of dearest freend, Thereby to make their l... ... bodie from the balefull stound, He smote at him with all his might and maine, So furiously, that ere he wist, he found His head before... ...louers vowes entire: And eke an hundred brasen caudrons bright, To bath in ioy and amorous desire, Euery of which was to a damzell high... ...s Adamants, with which he shines And glisters wide, as als’ of wondrous Bath, And Bristow faire, which on his waues he builded hath. The Fae... ...ele her grieuous paine, And oft to grone with billowes beating from the maine. The Faerie Queene : Book IV. 151 Though vaine I see my sorro...

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... rocks, which reach vnto the skie, I will thrust downe into the deepest maine, And as they were, them equalize againe. Tyrants that mak... ...m hauing quickly arm’d againe anew, They both together ioyned might and maine, T o set afresh on all the other crew. Whom with sore hau... ...f natures goodly grace, In her faire visage voide of ornament, But bath’d in bloud and sweat together ment; Which in the rudenesse of t... ...selfe, he with his yron flayle Gan driue at him, with so huge might and maine, That all his bones, as small as sandy grayle He broke, a... ...ares doe both together smite Amid their shields, with so huge might and maine, That seem’d their soules they wold haue ryuen quight Out... ...ntine shield, which he did beare, So well was tempred, that for all his maine, It would no passage yeeld vnto his purpose vaine. Yet wa...

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... “I know all that from the monument,” said Aurelia; “one was drowned while bathing, one died of spotted fever, and one was killed at the battle of Ram... ... Lady, who was on her way to Carminster for a few weeks, and afterwards to Bath. Forthwith Mrs. Aylward and her subordinates fell into a frenzy of ope... ...es down later when he can have his leave of absence, and my Lady is at the Bath. He will not if he can help it, for he is dead set against the young l... ... been kind enough to take Carminster on his way, so as to escort me to the Bath. I am such a sad coward about highwaymen. And we are to meet dear Lady... ... the arrival of Hargrave, the family man of business, who came by coach to Bath, and then rode across to Carminster. The Major dined that day at the G... ...h for my Lady than he could be. Very little faith in his cousin Urania re- mained to him in the abstract, yet even now he could not be sure that she w... ...e countenances showed him to be a welcome arrival. “Is it a reception day, Maine?” he asked of a kind of major- domo whom he met on the top of the bro... ...ch damped Betty’s satisfaction in the first assurance. What did she see as Maine opened the door? It was a very spacious bedroom, the bed in an alcove...

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...new valet with a certain diffidence. But I remembered that if he was my first experience of a valet, I was his first trial as a master. Cheered by whi... ...e doctor and an excellent old smiling priest it was passed over into my hands with a very clear statement of the disposer’s wishes; immediately after ... ...carlet?’ repeated the lawyer. ‘Is the fool delirious?’ 146 St. Ives ‘No,’ said I; ‘he is only reminding me of something.’ ‘Well—and I believe the fel... ... here by way of sentinel?’ ‘Himself, beyond a doubt,’ said I. ‘And yet to what end? He cannot think to pass the night there!’ ‘If it were only possibl... ...R DID TWO HUMAN CREATURES get to their feet with more alacrity than the lawyer and myself. We had locked and barred the main gates of the citadel; but... ...l only make yourself ridicu- lous; you will only squander money, of which you have none too much, and reap public mortification.’ ‘Ah, but there you m... ... it cannot hurt him. There—you see!—he is furious now, and I am quite helpless. One more prod, another kick: now he is a mere lunatic! Stand behind me... ...the crowd that had assembled to receive the mail. Here we were, with but little daylight before us, and that 198 St. Ives on Saturday afternoon, the ...

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... out of sight like a blanket. There’d be a little corner sticking out, up at Maine and away up north west, and Florida sticking out like a turtle’s ta... ...lf a dozen horrible ones like the last water sucking down the plug hole of a bath tub, then the same with more power to it, and some big coughs and s...

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...nating will, sedentary and corpulent in her habit, had philosophically re- mained at home. But the cream-coloured house (supposed to be modelled on th... ...d in putting a gold-fish in one visitor’s bed, dressed up a burglar in the bath-room of a nervous aunt, and saw in the small hours by joining in a pil... ...ed her dallying with the plan of being wheeled up the nave in her enormous Bath chair and sitting enthroned in it at the foot of the chancel. The idea... ...ed to persuade May to spend the summer on a remote island off the coast of Maine (called, appropriately enough, Mount Desert), where a few hardy Bosto... ...in his company. The steam-yacht, built in the Clyde, and fitted with tiled bath-rooms and other unheard-of luxuries, was said to have cost him half a ... ...reathed hats mingled in a tender rain- bow. All were young and pretty, and bathed in summer bloom; but not one had the nymph-like ease of his wife, wh... ...h them with the intimate abandon of boarders going down the passage to the bathroom. Archer found a cab and drove to the Somerset Club for breakfast. ...

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...ere reared already about the great hotel built by Louis XIV for the Duc de Maine—the Benjamin among his legiti- mated offspring. And indeed, for peopl... ...She held it out for his kiss. A woman’s hand, still moist from the scented bath, has a soft freshness, a velvet smooth- ness that sends a tingling thr...