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Updated: May 6, 2025
Through a glass partition one saw the shining kitchen with its large modern range, its rows and rows of the most expensive utensils all donations by the omnifarious army of Mlle. Thompson's devotees. Behind the salon was the schoolroom, with its blackboard, its four long tables, its charts for food proportions. All the girls wore blue linen aprons that covered them from head to foot.
The omnifarious assembly included pale, prim-whiskered young clerks; shabby, lonely, sallow young women, whose sallowness and shabbiness stamped them with the mark of integrity; other females whose specious splendor was not nearly so reassuring; old men, broken-down men, middle-aged men of every description, except the well-to-do. "Some of them," Littimer reflected, "are no worse than I am.
There was a luminousness in it a calm but piercing character, which seemed to partake more of the nature of spirit than of humanity. His conversation was such as might have been expected from a man whose fancy was so creative, whose knowledge omnifarious, and whose recollection so unbounded. He combined scholastic accuracy with unaffected ease; condensed and pointed, yet rich and perspicuous.
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