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"Oh, dear! what have I done to displease her?" the old man asked himself that morning, as he got one of these rebuffs after calling for his shaving-water. "Vedie, take up the hot water," cried Flore. "Vedie!" exclaimed the poor man, stupefied with fear of the anger that was crushing him. "Vedie, what is the matter with Madame this morning?"
How difficult it is to think of great lives in terms of the small mosaics that go to make up the pattern of every man's day-by-day the too tepid shaving-water; the badly laundered shirt-front; the three-minute egg; the too-short fourth leg of the table; the draught on the neck; the bad pen; the neighboring rooster; the misplaced key; the slipping chest-protector.
Without a word, he went to the dressing-table, poured out the shaving-water, threw a towel over his arm, and turned to come to the bed; but, all at once, he sidled back, put down the water, and furtively drew a sleeve across his eyes. Gaston saw, and something suddenly burned in him. He dropped his eyes, slid out of bed, into his dressing-gown, and sat down. Jacques made ready.
The coloured people are the best, but never make yourself dependent on either; for, if you are to start by the stage or the steamer, depend on your watch, instead of upon your boots being cleaned or your shaving-water being ready. In the latter case, shave with cold water by the light of your candle, lit by your own lucifer match.
A long, low knocking as of knuckles against a bulk-head. "Come in!" growled Bob Hampton. "Here's the cook brought your shaving-water, sir." The tapping was repeated, and sounded some little distance off. "Answer them, whoever it is, Bob," I said; for this seemed to be something, if not tangible, at all events certain. There was a little rustling about, and the tapping came again.
Shelby was standing before his dressing-glass, sharpening his razor; and just then the door opened, and a colored boy entered, with his shaving-water. "Andy," said his mistress, "step to Eliza's door, and tell her I have rung for her three times. Poor thing!" she added, to herself, with a sigh. Andy soon returned, with eyes very wide in astonishment. "Lor, Missis!
Bring 'em in line, they'll say, 'an' then you may fetch my shaving-water' and all the while no more'n ordinary men, same as you and me. Whereby I allow it must come in time, though my head don't seem to get no grip on it." Captain Coffin stared for a moment at a sheet of paper on which he had been scribbling figures, and passed it over to me, with a sigh. "There! What d'you make of it?"
Pickwick was fast asleep in bed, when his early visitor, followed by Sam, entered the room. The noise they made, in so doing, awoke him. 'Shaving-water, Sam, said Mr. Pickwick, from within the curtains. 'Shave you directly, Mr. Pickwick, said the visitor, drawing one of them back from the bed's head. 'I've got an execution against you, at the suit of Bardell. Here's the warrant. Common Pleas.
But there's one thing," brightening up, "which consoles me under this great haffliction, the annoyance that it has given to Mr. Theophilus. This morning, there was no one to dress him to flatter his vanity and tell him what a fine gentleman he is: I had to carry up his boots and shaving-water.
He had strayed into Faery somehow into Atlantis, or Avalon, or "a wood near Athens," into a land of opalescence and vapor and delicate color, that would vanish, bubble-like, at the discreet tap of Pawsey fetching in his shaving-water; meantime John Bulmer's memory snatched at each loveliness, jealously, as a pug snatches bits of sugar. Beneath her window he paused and shifted his lute before him.
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