Parlors

It was the same work he had so often performed in his "Parlors," only magnified, made monstrous, distorted, and grotesqued, the caricature of dentistry.

McTeague 1920

At half-past twelve the dentist came in from the "Parlors," bringing with him the smell of creosote and of ether.

McTeague 1920

Marcus often ran back and forth between his room and the dentist's "Parlors" in all sorts of undress.

McTeague 1920

"Marcus IS going away, after all, Mac," said Trina to her husband that day as he came out of his "Parlors" and sat down to the lunch of sausages, mashed potatoes, and chocolate in the sitting-room.

McTeague 1920

"Parlors," turning the notice about in his enormous clumsy fingers, reading it stupidly over and over again.

McTeague 1920

On leaving his "Parlors" he had put ten cents into his pitcher and had left it at Frenna's to be filled.

McTeague 1920

Trina, after they had come into the "Parlors," and Marcus had lit the gas.

McTeague 1920

The day he had spoken to her in his "Parlors" she had only been terrified.

McTeague 1920

They were situated in the flat, just back of his "Parlors," and he believed the photographer would sublet them furnished.

McTeague 1920

At one o'clock they separated, the dentist returning to the "Parlors," Trina settling to her work on the Noah's ark animals.

McTeague 1920