Grant had also selected the negligee shirt and the fashionable collar, and the bright, yet not gaudy, tie, and Grant had selected the shoes that made his feet look like feet; and Grant had conducted him to a proper barber, who had reduced the mop of hair to proportion and order, and had restored its natural color and look of vitality by a thorough shampooing.

In brief, Grant had taken a gloomy pleasure in putting his successful rival through the machine of civilization and bringing him out a city man, agreeable to sight, smell and touch.
"Now," said he, when the process was finished, "for Heaven's sake try to keep yourself up to the mark.

Take a cold bath every morning and a warm bath before dinner." "I have been taking a cold bath every day since I got my private bathroom," said Joshua, with honest pride.
"Then you're just as dirty as the average Englishman.

He takes a cold bath and fancies he's clean, when in fact he's only clean-looking.

Cold water merely stimulates.