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Updated: June 8, 2025
She was one of those women who are slow to comprehend a joke, and she could not quite make it seem natural that her new lodger, who was in rather neglige costume, should be a guest at a fashionable hotel. "I will leave my valise," said Rodney, "and will send for my trunk. It is in the country."
But my conscience mens conscium recto guides me and I will not resist it. I will assume my neglige and bonnet and will be with you in a moment." So saying she majestically quitted the apartment. The Prophet fell down upon the maroon sofa like a man smitten with paralysis. He felt suddenly old, and very weak.
The clerks in the outer offices, in the neglige of summer costumes, winked to each other as they saw old Jerry Hollowell enter and make his way to the inner room unannounced. Something was in the wind. "Well, old man," said Uncle Jerry, in the cheeriest manner, coming in, depositing his hat on the table, and taking a seat opposite Henderson, "we seem to have stirred up the animals."
He repeated the name several times with the information that visitors had arrived, and a woman answered him with oaths. After much pressing entreaty on the innkeeper's part Margarethe at last appeared, in neglige, and showed us, after various mysterious confabulations with the host, the rooms selected for us.
In passing it may be remarked that neither corridors nor rooms evinced any of that cleanliness and purity which marked the exterior of the building, for such attributes were not troubled about within, and anything that was dirty remained so, and donned no meritricious, purely external, disguise. It was as though Themis received her visitors in neglige and a dressing-gown.
Some perplexity in her toilette, induced him to offer his services. The neglige dress she wore, naturally gave him an opportunity to compliment her upon her undiminished charms. Of course she protested, but laughingly, claiming they were unmerited.
By fits and starts a great many of them they managed to make their way to "Bellevue," where the lovely Helene, arrayed in the alluring coolness of a white neglige, and with her braided locks drooping to her waist, came down the walk to meet them.
The Massachusetts Short-Hair is a man of intelligence, of some education, who wears a plain black neglige and rumpled shirt-front and soft hat, and disregards the condition of his nails, and takes a warm bath occasionally. The New Yorker, on the other hand, wears such clothes as he can get, and only bathes in the hot weather and off the public wharf.
He held himself erect, he had shaved, his faded negligé shirt was clean and laced with blue a colour that matched his eyes, and his voice had a certain expressive and even authoritative drawl in it. "No supplies to-day, my good people," he said, affecting to suppose Ringfield a customer. "Call to-morrow, or ah the next day.
Something in the elegant négligé of the attitude of the gentleman in the frockcoat depicted pensively painting the bedstead stimulated Hugh marvellously. He felt an insane desire to get a pot of the famous paint and set to work himself upon a similar labour. Kate came gently across the floor and placed a jug of iced lemon water and a tumbler at his elbow.
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