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When at last in chambers, he had washed off that special reek of clothes, and parchment, far-away herrings, and distemper, which clings about the law, dipping his whole curly head in water, and towelling vigorously, he set forth alone along the Embankment, his hat tilted up, smoking a cigar. It was nearly seven.
And it was while I was at the flat, towelling the torso after a much-needed rinse, that Jeeves, as we chatted of this and that picking up the threads, as it were suddenly brought the name of Gussie Fink-Nottle into the conversation. As I recall it, the dialogue ran something as follows: SELF: Well, Jeeves, here we are, what? JEEVES: Yes, sir. SELF: I mean to say, home again.
The door opened and Kirk's head appeared. "What's the matter?" "Well, you heard what Bailey said?" "About his father?" "Sure. It goes." Kirk came out into the gallery, towelling himself vigorously. "Who is her father?" he asked, seating himself on the rail. "He's a son of a gun," said Steve with emphasis. "As rich as John D. pretty nearly and about as chummy as a rattlesnake.
Bought yards and yards of new tea towelling, and gave orders that, after being once used, the dish towel is to be boiled before using again. September 18. Dr. S says get nothing out of the market. Dr. B says he eats cucumbers three times a day. What the doctor can risk surely the layman can chance. I buy cucumbers still.
"Who's that?" cried the man in the bed, sitting up suddenly. "All right, Al, he's a buddy o' mine," said Chrisfield. "He's taken off his uniform." "Jesus, you got guts," said the man in the bed. Andrews looked at him sharply. A piece of towelling, splotched here and there with dried blood, was wrapped round his head, and a hand, swathed in bandages, was drawn up to his body.
Ten minutes later, while I was towelling myself on the fore deck, in the seclusion afforded by the position of the galley, I was startled by what sounded like a distant volley of pistol-shots; and about half an hour afterwards I saw the crowd returning to camp by the way that they had gone.
Sarah had always done it. Miriam's throat contracted. She would not go down. Frau Krause should not touch her. She reached the attics. Their door was open and there was Mademoiselle in her little alpaca dressing-jacket, towelling her head. Her face came up, flushed and gay. Miriam was too angry to note till afterwards how pretty she had looked with her hair like that.
I therefore briefly explained to the skipper of the torpedo-boat the mission upon which I was bound, and what I wished him to do, and then, while he saw to the doing of his part, I retired to his little cabin, stripped off my wet swimming kit, and gave myself a vigorous towelling to banish the cold of even the brief swim I had already undertaken.
Judson stepped forward in an officious effort to serve her, and unable to restrain himself, he called out to O'mie, "Put four yards of towelling, twelve and a half cents a yard, to Mrs. Whately's standing account."
He didn't say a word about it. We had something of more consequence to talk about." "Now, Tanner, hark at that. Did you ever hear such a miserable cheeky little beggar in your life? It's of no use; we must give him a regular good towelling." "Better tell us what the luff said, Gnat," growled Barkins, in so strange an accession of gruffness that I began to laugh. "Why, what's the matter with you?"
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