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Updated: June 20, 2025


I saw this before he had spoken ten words to the concierge, the St. Bernard dog, I mean. For he did talk to him, and the conversation was just as plain to me, tilted back against the wall, out of the sun, waiting for my cutlets and coffee, as if I had been a dog myself, and understood each word of it. First, he walked up sideways, his tail wagging and straight out, like a patent towel-rack.

The study and the adjoining bed-room were at last furnished to suit; The First Snow was hung, the "rug for the wash-stand" was in place, and the objectionable towel-rack had given way to a smaller but less erratic affair. Every afternoon saw the two boys on Erskine Field.

"We're going to be jolly comfy here, Paul," he said. "Mrs. Curtis is going to get a new globe for that fixture over there." "Then we will be," said Paul. "And if she would only find us a towel-rack that didn't fall into twelve separate pieces like a Chinese puzzle every time a chap put a towel on it we'd be simply reveling in luxury." "I think I can fix that thing with string," answered Neil.

"There is no room for 'but," he cried. "We have studied the situation." And without deigning to dilate upon the subject, he turned immediately about and, stepping swiftly before me, led the way into the passage named. "Wine closet, clothes closet, washing apparatus, towel-rack," he explained, waving his hand from side to side as we hurried through, finishing with "Mr.

There are lots of little dodges that spell comfort for the dressing-room of the woman who wants comfort and can have luxury. There is the hot-water towel-rack, which is connected with the hot-water system of the house and which heats the towels, and incidentally the dressing-room. This a boon if you like a hot bath sheet after a cold plunge on a winter's morning.

'Here are a looking-glass and a towel-rack and a Shaker rocking- chair, called Philip; 'guess they're going to stay the rest of the summer. 'Yes, of course they wouldn't want a looking-glass if they were only going to stay a month or two, laughed Bell.

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