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Without came the shrill ringing of a bell, the sound of feet and the gabble of a phonographic message. The man in yellow appeared. "Yes?" said Graham. "They are at Vichy." "Where are the attendants who were in the great Hall of the Atlas?" asked Graham abruptly. Presently the Babble Machine rang again. "We may win yet," said the man in yellow, going out to it.
She goes to Aix, to Vichy, to Dieppe for the Grande Semaine, in fact, wherever rich foreigners gather; and wherever she goes she finds plenty eager to consult her!" "Is that all you wanted to know?" said Madame de Léra to Vanderlyn. "Yes," he said, slowly, "that is all. I did not know I had no idea that our poor old world was still so credulous!"
Cavendish had raised himself on one elbow, and was looking stupidly about the room. "Here you are," said Barclay cheerfully. "Stow this pill, and here's vichy to wash it down. Your bath's running. By the time you've had it, there'll be some clothes ready for you." Cavendish gulped down the tablet, and sat upright. "Last night" he faltered.
The street outside was all fog and melting snow; the cold vichy he had gulped made him internally uncomfortable. "A gay day to go to Mulqueen's," he muttered sourly, gazing about for a taxicab.
And a baked potato." He turned to Cassy. "Barring the ice, a baked potato is the only thing in which they can't stick grease." "Et comme vin, monsieur?" enquired the waiter who ought to have been at the front. "Aqua pura. But probably you have not got it. Celestial Vichy, then." He looked again at Cassy. "What else might displease your ladyship?"
What did he say?" Even Mrs. Becker could flush, quite prettily, too, her lids dropping at this not infrequent query of Lilly's. "It's not nice for young girls to ask such questions." "Go on, mamma, what did he say?" "I don't remember." The overture broke in upon them then, a brilliantly noisy one from Tschaikowsky that bathed them in a vichy of excited surf.
And with her slender fingers she raised the lid of the kettle, saying: "Go and ask Madame Maitland if she will take some tea this evening, and Fanny, too.... Ardea takes whiskey and the Baron mineral water.... You can ring for his glass of vichy.... There.... You have delayed me.... There are more callers and nothing is ready.... Ah," she cried, "it is Maud!" then, with surprise, "and her husband!"
His house from top to bottom is placarded with inscriptions written in large hand, round hand, printed hand: "Vichy, Seltzer, Barège waters, blood purifiers, Raspail patent medicine, Arabian racahout, Darcet lozenges, Regnault paste, trusses, baths, hygienic chocolate," etc. And the signboard, which takes up all the breadth of the shop, bears, in gold letters, "Homais, Chemist."
In our own time, when railways and steamboats have so altered the face of the world, the most wealthy and fashionable English society resorts a great deal to continental pleasure towns like Cannes, Nice, Florence, Vichy, Baden, Ems, and Homburg; but in the eighteenth century it resorted almost exclusively to Bath.
At last I had him laughing and mimicking, in his inimitable way a thing which he had not done for my benefit since the first night of our acquaintance the elderly and outraged Moignon whom he proposed to visit in Paris, for the purpose of cancelling his contracts. As for Vichy Vichy could go hang. There were ravening multitudes of demobilized variety artists besieging every stage-door in France.
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