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Updated: October 3, 2025
She tubbed and dressed quickly, although she had some bother with her hair, which, this morning, seemed intent on defying the efforts of her fingers. Having dressed herself to her somewhat exigent satisfaction, she went downstairs, passing the doors of those venerable virgins, the Misses Helen and Annie Mee, as she descended to the ground-floor, on which was the schoolroom.
She linked this perception with his appearance of having been freshly tubbed, his immaculate finger nails, shining as though fresh from the manicure, his perfectly kept teeth and yes the pressure of a finger on her pulse. Upon this perception, Laughing Eyes spoke sharply: "Wilfred says your sick folks don't always pay like they ought.
In the cañon below, Jones, as he piloted her to the subway, pulled at his gloves. "If I had the ability, I would write an opera, call it 'Danaë' and offer you the title-rôle." Cassy, her thoughts on her grandmother, repeated it. "Danaë?" "Yes, the lady disconnected by marriage with Jupiter who tubbed her in gold gold ink, I suppose.
We the first person singular grows tiresome we might have now, on our acre, a tree planted by Joseph Jefferson had we thought in time to be provided with a sapling, growing, in a tub. Have your prospective souvenir tree already tubbed and waiting.
There was a reek of cigar smoke; its origin between the lips of a burly young man who stood drumming a tune upon the window-pane. Mr. Bob Chater turned at her entry. "I've been waiting for you a long time," he said. She asked, "Whatever for?" and in her tone there was a chill. "Didn't I tell you yesterday that I was coming to see the kids tubbed?" "I didn't think you meant it." Mr.
Below was Burnamy behind the tubbed evergreens, sitting tilted in his chair against the house wall, with the spark of his cigar fainting and flashing like an American firefly. Agatha went down to the door, after a little delay, and seemed surprised to find him there; at least she said, "Oh!" in a tone of surprise. Burnamy stood up, and answered, "Nice night." "Beautiful!" she breathed.
I do hope he'll never drop out. I'm getting very handy about holding him, though. Oh, let's take him upstairs and tub him now; do you mind?" So they took him upstairs and tubbed him, and Lucy managed to hold him so firmly that he didn't once swim away and get lost. She was strange-eyed and pale in the blurred light, and greeted Lucy in a dreamy, absent way.
So he wandered up-stairs into Mortimer's apartments, where he tubbed and dressed, and finally descended, to find Agatha Caithness alone in the library, spinning a roulette wheel and whistling an air from "La Bacchante." "That's pretty," he said; "sing it."
"All ready, sah; Sergeant Bela Moshi him lib for tell fatigue party mighty quick. No need worry, sah." Dismissing his servant the subaltern "tubbed" and dressed. They start the day early on the Coast, getting through most of the routine before nine, since the intense heat of the tropical sun makes strenuous exertion not only unpleasant but highly dangerous. But to-day was of a different order.
Such public sentiment as they had centred about their dear Duke of Burgundy, and the dear Duke had no more urgent business than to keep out of their neighbourhood.... At least, and whether he liked it or not, our disreputable troubadour was tubbed and swaddled as a subject of the English crown. We hear nothing of Villon's father, except that he was poor and of mean extraction.
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