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Updated: May 29, 2025
Sabine could not at first imagine what this new fancy signified, she, whose house possessed a calorifere which heated the staircases, antechambers, and passages.
Has anything happened to your calorifère? These rooms are too big! By-the-way, Oliver" Mr. Ferrier turned his back to the blaze, and looked round him "when are you going to reform this one?" Oliver surveyed it. "Of course I should like nothing better than to make a bonfire of it all! But mother " "Of course of course! Ah, well, perhaps when you marry, my dear boy! Another reason for making haste!"
To-day, I am afraid, these mighty hearths are for ever cold; justice is probably administered with the aid of a modern calorifère, and the walls of the palace are perforated with regurgitating tubes.
By the aid of a calorifère, the whole establishment is heated to an agreeable degree of warmth, but for those who like to see a cheering blaze there are chimneys which afford them the means of having that indulgence.
To-day, I am afraid, these mighty hearts are forever cold; justice it probably administered with the aid of a modern calorifere, and the walls of the palace are perforated with regurgitating tubes.
After a time, the care of the convalescents passed almost entirely into Joan's hands, Madame Lelanne being told off to assist her. By dint of much persistence she had succeeded in getting the leaky roof repaired, and in place of the smoky stove that had long been her despair she had one night procured a fine calorifere by the simple process of stealing it.
The ill-fitting windows, opening in the old door-like fashion, let in every breath of the chill outer air. A fire is a handful of sticks or half a dozen lumps of coal. The calorifère, a poor substitute for our powerful furnaces, is a luxury for the very rich an innovation grudgingly granted to the whims of the occupants of the most costly and fashionable of private apartments.
During this period and several others Pemberton was quite aware of how he and his comrade might strike people; wandering languidly through the Jardin des Plantes as if they had nowhere to go, sitting on the winter days in the galleries of the Louvre, so splendidly ironical to the homeless, as if for the advantage of the calorifere.
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