The keepers of
baths also take great and patient pains to insult you.
Pickwick contemplated a stay of at least two months in
Bath, he deemed it advisable to take private lodgings for himself and friends for that period; and as a favourable opportunity offered for their securing, on moderate terms, the upper portion of a house in the Royal Crescent, which was larger than they required, Mr.
There was a
bath in that corner, from which the water had been hastily drained off.
It is such an abominable trick to be ill here instead of at
Bath that I can scarcely command myself at all.
Sir Walter had at first thought more of London; but Mr Shepherd felt that he could not be trusted in London, and had been skillful enough to dissuade him from it, and make
Bath preferred.
"I can assure you," he said earnestly, "that, provided the
bath was made, I used it every morning.
"Beware my Laura (she would often say) Beware of the insipid Vanities and idle Dissipations of the Metropolis of England; Beware of the unmeaning Luxuries of
Bath and of the stinking fish of Southampton."
George said that if it was going to make Harris eat more than Harris ordinarily ate, then he should protest against Harris having a
bath at all.
We had lived thus near three months, when the company beginning to wear away at the
Bath, he talked of going away, and fain he would have me to go to London with him.
After chatting some time on such matters as naturally arose from the objects around them, he suddenly addressed her with -- "I have hitherto been very remiss, madam, in the proper attentions of a partner here; I have not yet asked you how long you have been in
Bath; whether you were ever here before; whether you have been at the Upper Rooms, the theatre, and the concert; and how you like the place altogether.
Who gives him the
Bath? "I," said the wet, Rank Jungle-sweat, "I'll give him the
Bath!"
Around the edge of the pool were set rows of fine emeralds as large as door-knobs, while the water of the
bath was clear as crystal.