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Upon this point I spoke with especial firmness. Perhaps it was the manner of my administering this gentle but deserved rebuke or possibly the words in which I couched my chidings at any rate she endeavoured to conceal the discomfiture she must have felt beneath an outburst of laughter ere she withdrew, leaving me to welcome solitude and my throat douche.
This accomplished, I retired to my cabin with an easy mind, and slept the sleep of the just until midday. A salt-water douche on deck for a few minutes, skilfully administered by a laughing Japanese seaman, and a brisk rub down with a rough towel left me fresh and invigorated, quite ready for a meal and the work which still lay ahead of me.
She seized a bowl containing some flowers and cast the contents into his face. "Fire, fire and death!" she shrilled at him. The douche brought the man out of his stupor. "Fire?" he repeated. "Come!" This time he followed her docilely, wiping his face on his sleeve. They heard a great shouting in the street, but did not tarry to learn what had caused it.
This last operation, called the douche, however, is more effectually undergone in the private bath, where the stream is much more powerful. The natural warmth of this water, as nearly as I can judge from recollection, is about the same degree of temperature with that in the Queen's Bath, at Bath in Somersetshire.
"Here you, Hardy, stand for'ard! I'll have no deck hands on my quarter-deck," he cried, and the reproof braced the whole crew like a cold douche. The boat came alongside with perfect neatness, and the boy officer stepped on board, where he was respectfully greeted by Wicks. "You the master of this ship?" he asked. "Yes, sir," said Wicks. "Trent is my name, and this is the Flying Scud of Hull."
"There 's juist ae room feenished, an' ye micht like tae see the paper on 't; it's a yellow rose on a licht blue grund; a 'm jidgin' it wes the Doctor's ain room. Weel, it's a gude lang wy tae Drumtochty, an' ye 'll no be wantin' tae pit aff time, a' daresay." It was a terrible douche of prose, and Carmichael was still shivering when he reached the kindly shade of Tochty woods.
Triffitt went off to Kensal Green, scowling and cogitating. Of course the police knew something! But what? What they knew would doubtless come out in time, but Triffitt had a strong desire to be beforehand with them. In spite of the douche of cold water which the news editor had just administered, Triffitt knew his Argus.
The douche, and the fright attending it, would usually restore his reason to the delirious individual, or, at all events, would have the effect of restoring tranquillity upon the raft, soon after to be disturbed by some scene of like, or perhaps more terrible, activity. The reader, unacquainted with the history of this raft and the people upon it, may require some information concerning them.
To her surprise, instead of the usual cheerful "Come in," with which Miss Oliphant always assured her young friend of a welcome, Maggie said from the other side of the locked door: "I am very busy just now I cannot see any one." Priscilla felt a curious sense of being chilled; her whole afternoon had been one of elation, and Maggie's words came as a kind of cold douche.
Mary's sweet humility and strong trust come out wonderfully in her direction to the servants, which is the exact opposite of what might have been expected after the cold douche administered to her eagerness to prompt Jesus. Her faith had laid hold of the little spark of promise in that 'not yet, and had fanned it into a flame.
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