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Updated: June 14, 2025
'That poor fellow had rather have gone a dozen, miles further than have been lugged in here. Really, if papa chooses to inflict such dressing-gowns on me, he should give me notice before he brings men and dogs to make me their laughing-stock! 'An unlucky moment, said Laura. 'Will my cheeks ever cool? 'Perhaps he did not hear, said Amabel, consolingly.
As soon as I was on the sofa, wrapped up in one of the dressing-gowns of Mr Cophagus, he told me that the clothes in which I had been picked up were all in tatters, and asked me whether I would like to have others made according to the usual fashion, or like those with whom I should, he trusted, in future reside. I had already debated this matter in my mind.
"I have an immense popularity among kitchen-maids. They think me so genteel." Philip, in return for Griffiths' confidences, had told him the details of his own complicated amours, and on Sunday morning, after breakfast when they sat by the fire in their dressing-gowns and smoked, he recounted the scene of the previous day.
"But do you mind telling me how you figure out a man traveling under an alias and helping himself to other people's property on any other basis than that he's a thief?" "A, B, C," replied Average Jones; "as thus: A Thieves don't wander about in dressing-gowns. B Nor take necklaces and leave purses. C Nor strip gems violently apart and scatter them like largess from fire-escapes.
You wait another month and Ay'll be kicking may heels about on the quay free from all these old women's shawls and dressing-gowns and things. Now, you go and call the young man up." And Valmai went and soon returned, bringing Cardo with her. "Well, Mr. Gwyn, and how are you? Very glad to see you, sir, under may roof. Hope you slept well, and that the lil gel has given you a good breakfast."
Others pacing and tramping: this one in colloquy with his lawyer in dingy black that one walking sadly, with his wife by his side, and a child on his arm. Some were arrayed in tattered dressing-gowns, and had a look of rakish fashion. Everybody seemed to be busy, humming, and on the move. Pen felt as if he choked in the place, and as if the door being locked upon him they never would let him out.
"Let me have one of your dressing-gowns. I shall be more comfortable for the night, and these ladies will excuse me, will they not?" "Excuse you, I should think so, you, the doctor, and my friend!" I felt devotedly attached to him that evening. "Well, then, if they will excuse me, you can very well let me have a pair of slippers."
They sit in their dressing-gowns, cleaning their pistols, gluing together all sorts of things out of cardboard, playing draughts and cards with any friend who chances to drop in, and so pass away the morning, doing pretty nearly the same in the evening, with the addition of punch now and then. After these great people and aristocracy of Kolomna, come the rank and file.
The first economize their life like misers; the second waste it like prodigals. Then night comes on, and the air grows cold. Those who take care of themselves go home, those who amuse themselves go out. The first put on dressing-gowns; the second put on ball-dresses.
Mike came into Dallas' room in the morning when he was taking his bath; he hung around the young ladies' rooms, speaking through the half-open doors; then when the doors were open, the young ladies fled and wrapped themselves in dressing-gowns.
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