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The douche room should be a small chamber adjoining the lavatorium, and fitted with a circular needle bath with shower or douche above, and any other kind of spray bath that may be required. It should not be a dark, cold, uninviting hole.

Picturesque he was and always would be, but his present costume scarce fitted the presence of a lady. Yet of this he gave no sign. He was leaning back in a morris chair, rakish, debonair, and at his ease. Evidently, he had been giving appreciative ear to the music, and more appreciative eye to the musician. "So it's you," said Melissy, white to the lips.

This made a very small link in the chain of circumstantial evidence, perhaps; but it was a link, nevertheless, and it fitted neatly into its place. "Did Mr. Maldon hear from his daughter after she had left Wildernsea?" Robert asked. "Well, I believe he did hear from her," Mrs. Barkamb answered; "but I didn't see much of the old gentleman after that August.

It was in the spring of the year 1609 that at the King's instance I had a suite of apartments fitted up for him at the Arsenal, that he might visit me, whenever it pleased him, without putting my family to inconvenience; in another place will be found an account of the six thousand crowns a year which he was so obliging as to allow me for this purpose.

Susan Hornby's house was in advance of the country in which they lived, while her husband fitted the pioneer life he had chosen. Of this fact neither husband nor wife seemed to be conscious. Nathan was ten years older than the woman he had married. In accepting him she had accepted him as he was; later she had grown, but to her he remained the same; he was just Nathan, and needed no analysis.

It is a trite saying that "too many cooks spoil the broth," but in this instance the saying was verified. A large committee was appointed to take charge of the arrangements. A committee means divided management and conflicting opinions. But the vigorous and able management of the Great Western had not more to do with its success than the demand which it was fitted to supply.

The delicate point, therefore, of the whole operation is keeping the first mule straight. The first mule in our party, who rejoiced in the name of Rousse, was selected to head the caravan, perhaps because he had more native originality than most mules, and was therefore better fitted to lead than to follow.

That consists of three parts: washing, as emblematic of communicated purity; robing, and anointing, the last act signifying, when applied to men, their endowment with so much of the divine Spirit as fitted them for their theocratic functions. These three things made the 'sanctifying, or setting apart for God's service, of Aaron and his sons.

"Well," said the doctor, addressing the officer, "what do you think of her?" "There is something strangely touching about her," Genestas answered. "How very nicely you have fitted up this little nest of hers!" "Bah! a wall-paper at fifteen or twenty sous; it was carefully chosen, but that was all.

"There, is not that just what I have said?" They both talked equally fast, and fitted together like the cogs of two wheels. "But money, you see, money? I have no money." "We will get on slowly without money; but get on we shall!" "We shall get on! Of course we will! But if we had money, it would go faster you say?" "Many times faster." "Many times? We ought to have money!