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'O Rose! let us see the little girl; and if she will do, let us have her, and Tessa can learn our song, and it will be splendid! cried the biggest boy, who sat astride of a chair, and stared at the harp with round eyes. 'I'll ask mamma, said Rose; and away she went into the dining-room close by.
In the old days when people used to go and see him without an appointment, I have often sat for hours in his dining-room, feeling so ill that I felt as if I should die before I saw him, but after having seen him I felt as if I had got a new lease of life. I was not at all hypochondriacal or fanciful, I think, but that was the moral effect of an interview with him.
Marshall, followed by any one who felt like helping, went out into the kitchen and made hot coffee and sandwiches, and when the last chord had stopped vibrating, the company adjourned into the dining-room and partook of this simple fare.
Eight o'clock struck and almost at the same moment there were two knocks at the door, and the butler came in and told her that dinner was ready. "Has the Count come in?" "Yes, Madame la Comtesse; he is in the dining-room."
"I didn't listen," admitted Rose. "I wanted to see if there were any molasses cookies, but they're all sugar. What was it?" and Rose, too, talked very low. They were now out on the side porch, under the dining-room windows, which were open, for, as I have said, it was warm October weather. "He said there was something queer about Great Hedge, where he lives with Grandma," went on Russ.
It was cavernous and cold; but if there had been a fire in the kitchen, and a table laid in the dining-room, and beds equipped for nightmare, after the German fashion, in the empty chambers, one could have imagined a kindly, simple, neighborly existence there.
If a girl be one of the forty-five waitresses on the eighty-nine tables of the dining-room, she eats her breakfast as the other students march out, then finishes her room-duties and is ready for work at ten minutes of seven wherever she happens to be assigned.
We got down rather late, but there was still light enough to see the big bell hanging at the top of the house. The rope belonging to it went right down the house, through our bedroom to the dining-room. H. O. saw the rope and pulled it while he was washing his hands for supper, and Dicky and I let him, and the bell tolled solemnly. Father shouted to him not to, and we went down to supper.
I expected an excited rush, a violent opening of the door, a tremulous: "My loved one! My loved one!" There was a peculiar disappointment in store for me. She received me icily, not letting me come near her "Why, what's the matter? What's up?" "Nothing," she muttered When we reached the light of the Sabbath candles in the dining-room I noticed that she looked worn and haggard "What has happened?"
One day, as they were leaving the dining-room and the Emperor made a motion to give him the precedence, he stepped back, saying with a significant smile and double entendre, not lost on Joseph, "Since your imperial majesty begins to manoeuvre, I must follow wherever you lead."
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