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One of these springs is situated close to the river, where a simple kind of bath-house has been constructed. The water contains iodine. While at Toplicza I heard that somewhere up in the mountains on the Bukovina side there is a large deposit of sulphur. The accounts were very vague, but I thought I should like to have a look at the place.
Then she related about the suicide of another inspector's mistress; she drowned herself because she was about to have a child. Then she told about a third inspector who got drunk in a bath-house and got into a tussle there with the mayor of the town. Shabalov was riding in a trap with Zherbenev. "It would be good to have a tasty snack," he said.
"You can see," said old Anthony, "why I am interested in your views, or perhaps I should say, in Willy Cameron's. Does your father's passion for uplift, for instance, extend to you?" "Why won't you be elected, father?" "Partly because my name is Cardew." Old Anthony chuckled. "What!" he exclaimed, "after the bath-house and gymnasium you have built at the mill?
In the country, however, the more primitive customs are still in force, and every dwelling has its half-open bath-house, whilst the people do as they like in the matter of clothing. After stopping twice on the road, to drink the inevitable tea, we changed from our carriage to jinrikishas, each drawn and pushed by four strong men, bowling along at a merry pace.
Pekka made a new fireplace in the bath-house out of the stones of the old stove, and the crickets flitted thither with the stones at least their chirping was never heard any more in the dwelling room.
At the sound of the Egyptian's voice all her terror of him returned: she felt a sentiment of pleasure at learning she was not to travel in his companionship. She returned to the Bath-house, and in one of the private chambers waited their return. Many and bitter were the thoughts of this wild girl as she sat there in her eternal darkness.
Ulrich's Church, and recognised among the throngs of people who had flocked thither her companion in suffering at the convent, the keeper of the bath-house, who had been cured of her burns long before.
She slammed the door behind her and threw the Finleyville evening paper at me. "There!" she said, "I've won a cake of toilet soap from Bath-house Mike. The emperor's consented." "Nonsense!" I snapped, and snatched the paper.
"Must have been brought up on printed menu-cards," one of the other women at our table commented, with a laugh "That's right," Mrs. Kalch assented, appreciatively. "I could not say whether her father was a horse-driver or a stoker in a bath-house, but I do know that her husband kept a coal-and-ice cellar a few years ago." "That'll do," her bewhiskered husband snarled.
The help was gathered in a crowd at the head of the bath-house staircase, where a cloud of steam was coming up, and down below we could hear furious talking, and somebody shouting, "Mike! Mike!" in a voice that was choked with rage and steam. Doctor Barnes elbowed his way through the crowd to the top of the stairs and I followed. "There's Minnie!" Amanda King yelled.
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