When I reached the Wheel of Pleasure, I found Rosalind awaiting me in the coffee- room, looking fresh from a traveller's
toilette, and with the welcome news that dinner was on the way.
The
toilette table was a simple table standing on four legs; there was nothing about it by which it could possibly be changed into a temporary hiding-place.
I pay this particular compliment to Queequeg, because he treated me with so much civility and consideration, while I was guilty of great rudeness; staring at him from the bed, and watching all his
toilette motions; for the time my curiosity getting the better of my breeding.
"You think too much of your '
toilette,' Adele: but you may have a flower." And I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash.
Having embraced her Anchor with great affection, Fanny took a bottle of sweet
toilette water from the table, and called to her maid for a fine handkerchief.
When the ladies were separating for the
toilette. Her said to Elizabeth--
They halted for a short time to make their
toilette, an operation as important with an Indian warrior as with a fashionable beauty.
"I'm sure you look more charming in them than any one we shall see in the most elaborate dinner
toilette."
Nor were they idle the while, for each one performed the simple offices of the
toilette for the other.
The whole city, not to be behind in this luxury of cleanliness, assumed its best
toilette with the help of brushes, brooms, and water.
The handkerchief ought not to cost more than the rest of the
toilette."
On entering the small anteroom which was called a dressing-room, but which Arthur really used only to lounge and write in, he just cast his eyes on the writing-table, and saw that there were several letters and packets lying there; but he was in the uncomfortable dusty condition of a man who has had a long hurried journey, and he must really refresh himself by attending to his
toilette a little, before he read his letters.