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In his white tie, yellow gloves, and new wig, redolent of eau de Portugal, he looked something like a poisonous essence kept in a cut-glass bottle, seeming but the more deadly because everything about it is daintily neat, from the stopper covered with white kid to the label and the thread.
As for looking after her yes, I'll undertake that! There will be no difficulty in getting anything we want: if she likes, I will arrange a serenade under her window every night; I will sprinkle the coachmen with eau de cologne and strew flowers along the roads.
They had the happier feeling of composure, though Tasso possessed the room. Not Tasso, but a sublimated offensiveness, issue of the antagonistically combined, dispersed to be the more penetrating; insomuch that it seemed to them they could not ever again make use of eau d'Arquebusade without the vitiating reminder. So true were the words of Mr.
The doctor, knowing what the man had to say, skilfully turned his attention away from his favorite topic, until they were sufficiently refreshed not by the eau de vie and noyau, but by the rest to explore the bell towers. The bells composing the chime were fixed in the lofts, which were filled with wires, cranks, and other machinery, used in operating them.
James, get the eau de cologne and draw his bath for our plutocrat!" "You see, something had to be done about the dead between the redoubts," explained the barber's son, "though the officers on both sides were against it." "Naturally. It afforded opportunities for observation," put in Peterkin, repeating the colonel's words.
A small bouquet of delicate odeur was here handed by a servant on a salver to his young master, and Eau Clair saying, "Let me be the first to fill the holder with fragrance," put the flowers into the golden receptacle.
"O, I know. Parlez-vous Angleterre?" added Grossbeck, turning to the waiter. "Non, monsieur," replied the waiter, who did not speak "England." "O, confound it! What's the Dutch for wine?" demanded Lynch, impatiently. "I know eau de vie. Garçon, eau de vie," replied Grossbeck, confidently. The waiter disappeared, and presently returned with a small decanter and two minute wine-glasses.
"No, none of those," he said. "Just plain, unemotional water, eau naturelle, straight from the pipe, the microbe laden fluid that runs off London tiles most days. I haven't been outside the hotel during the last hour; but if you happen to pass the door I guess you'll see the kind of essence I mean dripping off umbrellas.
Oh, sweet Harry; you're as sweet as eau de Portugal yourself; you're almost as good as papa; but still you know you did go and forget to ask Bigland for that rose, that new rose they say he has got." "No, Amy, I did not forget. I asked him, and he has got the Rose, sans reproche: but do you know, little Miss Extravagance, a very small one is half-a-guinea?" "Oh, I don't mind.
At the foot of this latter court is the Baptistry where were baptised, in 1606, the three "Enfants de France," the dauphin, afterwards Louis XIII; the Princesse Elizabeth, afterwards the Queen of Spain; and the Princesse de Savoie. The Cour Ovale is practically of the proportions of the ancient Manor of Fontaine Belle Eau, built by Robert le Pieux.
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