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A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

Rose Macaulay

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Rose Macaulay
Age: 77 †
Born: 1881
Born: April 1
Died: 1958
Died: October 30
Author
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Rugby
Warwickshire
Emilie Rose Macaulay
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay
Exquisite
Fervid
Consolation
Flagrant
Hot
Rigour
Pleasure
Austerity
Freedom
Luxurious
Renunciation
Bath
Baths

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