2/38 Take off your things." They took off their overcoats and came up close to the stove. Carhaix, "but to thaw this place you would have to keep a fire going night and day." "Why don't you get a portable stove ?" "Oh, heavens! that would asphyxiate us." "It wouldn't be very comfortable at any rate," said Des Hermies, "for there is no chimney. You might get some joints of pipe and run them out of the window, the way you have fixed this tubing. But, speaking of that kind of apparatus, Durtal, doesn't it seem to you that those hideous galvanized iron contraptions perfectly typify our utilitarian epoch? |