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"Why, I'd have no time to wear them. I'd never dare put on anything so delicate." She roamed through dressing-room, bedroom, bath-room, marveling, inquiring, admiring. "I'm so glad I came," said she. "This will give me a fresh point of view. I can understand the people of your class better, and be more tolerant about them. I understand now why they are so hard and so indifferent.
'There's the bath-room now, if you want it, he said generally, and was going away again, when Gerald called: 'I say, Rupert! 'What? The single white figure appeared again, a presence in the room. 'What do you think of that figure there? I want to know, Gerald asked. Birkin, white and strangely ghostly, went over to the carved figure of the negro woman in labour.
At about three in the afternoon he went in his slippers round the end of the bungalow to get his shoes, and trod on a cobra which was lying in the soft and rather muddy ground created by the bath-room water. He had stepped on to about the middle of the snake's body, but probably rather nearer the tail than the head.
"But how nice," she said again, and put the gift in the bath-room. This was starting the day well a small enough foundation for happiness, yet one which every woman knows, for happiness is made up of small and acceptable things and, given the psychological moment, a bunch of primroses has a greater value than a rope of pearls.
At Lord's Island our Turkish bath-room will immediately adjoin our Russian, and the temperature being supported by pipes from the same boiler which furnishes vapor to the other, will be no heavy addition to our expense in the way of apparatus.
He sent a ray of light skimming about the room; then he found the switch, turned on the lights, and entered. The room was empty, as were the dressing-room and bath-room adjoining. The covers of the bed had been turned back, ready for its occupant, but the bed was undisturbed.
The Marriage of Figaro will no doubt have taught you to put your wife's chamber at a great height from the ground. All celibates are Cherubins. Your means, doubtless, will permit your wife to have a dressing-room, a bath-room, and a room for her chambermaid.
Really the house was not as primitive as he had thought it when he had seen the landlord come forward with a candle. M. Malfait turned round and flung open a door. "It was an idea of my wife's," he said proudly. "You see, M'sieur, the apartment serves a double purpose " And it did! For the odd little room into which Chester was shown by his host served as store cupboard as well as bath-room.
The partitions were torn out of the cottage, and it was opened up into one room, except for the kitchen, which was turned into a bath-room. Six single iron beds were put up, and the place was made comfortable by an old-fashioned, air-tight, sheet-iron stove with a great hole in the top through which big chunks and knots of wood were fed.
"I was very angry, slammed the door in his face and went to the bath-room ... When I came out again, feeling greatly refreshed, Erik said that he loved me, but that he would never tell me so except when I allowed him and that the rest of the time would be devoted to music. 'What do you mean by the rest of the time? I asked. 'Five days, he said, with decision.
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