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Updated: June 27, 2025
"It never rains, but it pours, after dry weather," says Pamela de Nesle. And so it was for the Turnour family. They had had their run of luck, and everything determinedly went wrong for them that night. For her ladyship, there was the dreadful douche of the admiral's mistake, and the Marquise de Roquemartine's coming to hear of it.
He has left a warm bed, illegally occupied for the night. A woman in a rumpled night dress moaned under him. The plot is simple. How pleasing it was for a moment. She came so close. She was like an incredibly intimate secret. He gasped physiological instructions. And finis! The captains and the kings depart. The recessional of the douche! Do you love me yet, do you love me yet?
"All living things come from the egg," such had been Harvey's dictum. The result was like the tonic of a cold douche. I began to feel cleansed and purified, as though something sticky-sweet which all my life had clung to me had been washed away.
The protracted warm bath or the cold douche influences, too, large brain parts by changing the blood circulation which controls the activity of those neurons; or the bromides absorbed in the digestive apparatus, or the morphine injected, also reach the neurons and again have a different kind of influence on them, and the electric current may stimulate the nervous system in still a different way.
The "douche" of Aix-les-Bains having been explained, Smollett and his party proceeded agreeably to Avignon, where by one of the strange coincidences of travel he met his old voiturier Joseph "so embrowned by the sun that he might have passed for an Iroquois." In spite of Joseph's testimonial the "plagues of posting" are still in the ascendant, and Smollett is once more generous of good advice.
"I can't imagine how you reach that conclusion," I put in rather tartly, still reminiscent of the rubber stamp. "Oh," he said, his eye twinkling, "simplest thing in the world. The governor's rather brief with those he doesn't like." "Brief! I feel as though I'd just emerged from a glacial douche." "Oh, he's nippy. But he never misses a trick, and he got your number all O.K."
"All living things come from the egg," such had been Harvey's dictum. The result was like the tonic of a cold douche. I began to feel cleansed and purified, as though something sticky-sweet which all my life had clung to me had been washed away.
The patient is gradually brought under the full force of hydropathy: some of the severer appliances such as the plunge-bath after packing, and the douche not being employed till he has been in some degree seasoned and strung up for them.
It had been in all their memories, of course, a vague, hovering uncertainty, a dark suspicion that one put aside and would not look at. But to have it now placed before them, and in these cold, these somber tones, was to receive an icy douche of reality, to be convicted of over-ready hope, over-generous confidence.
The effect of this operation in renewing the boy's strength and repairing the waste of his body is marvellous. When removed from the bath the boy is washed with tepid water, mixed with a solution of bark, and on the following day a cold douche is administered.
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