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Updated: May 31, 2025
All the simple machinery of the mock pharmacy was so well oiled that even an expert could detect no commerce more dangerous than Lubin's Powders, crimson lip salve, or a powder puff.
She says I will be a famous cook some day. You didn't know that I made up the Sally Lunn for tea?" "What an ambitious bit of majesty you are! You wish to reign in the kitchen, rule in the poultry yard, and now presume to invade my province my special kingdom of making things ready for the Bishop? Have you been anointing yourself with a whole vial of Lubin's extract of Ah! delicious what is it?"
There were portraits in miniature of the courtiers and the ladies of the Great Reign on the very ewers and basins. On the flounced dressing-table, with its antique glass and a diminutive patch-box, now the receptacle of Lubin's powder, a sprig of the lovely Rose The was exhaling a faint, far-away century perfume.
"Yes, that's Lubin," replied Austin, delighted that St Aubyn should have remembered him. Then Lubin looked up with a respectful smile, and bashfully touched his cap. "Lubin's awfully clever," he continued, as they sauntered out of hearing, "and so nice every way. He's what I call a real gentleman, and knows all sorts of curious things.
I bowed over the hand, I would not have touched it with my lips at that moment for all the wealth of Paris. "You are coming to me to-morrow morning at twelve?" she murmured tenderly. "If Madame desires it." "Of course I desire it. I am going to Auteuil, to look at a house for a friend and to Pignot's for some flowers and to Lubin's for some scent and to a host of places.
The predicted rain held off in spite of the terpsichorean importunity of Lubin's geese, and Austin passed a lovely morning on the moors; but next day it came down with a vengeance, and for six hours there was a regular deluge. However, Austin didn't mind.
Clearly, to tell us that we may expect bad weather; for the bad weather invariably follows. These are all providential arrangements intended for our personal convenience, and are not to be accounted for on any cut-and-dried scientific theory. Lubin's erudition was certainly very great, but there was something exasperating about it too.
He has free drinks and dinners at various first class hotels, which he invariably recommends in his 'articles. Doctor Thompson's purgative powders, Lubin's perfumery, and the Home Journal, are severally victims of his profound respect. "The correspondent critic has small apartments at first class hotels, which he changes frequently, out of sheer respect, as he says, to economy.
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