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But the kitchen must not be forgotten. Its most striking contents are the large earthenware vases, similar in shape and size to the orcis of Italy, in which the top-knotted native keeps his wine, water, barley and rice. Then there are numberless shining brass cups, saucers, and bowls of various sizes. The latter forms the Corean dinner-service. Every piece of this is made of brass.
'That fork is the only one we have. Fanny has it generally. 'Raymond! cries Mrs. Gray, with an imploring face. 'She was used to better things, you know: and I hope one day to get her a dinner-service. I'm told the electro-plate is uncommonly good. Where the deuce IS that boy with the beer?
It saved time to do these things just when you thought of them, and Lydgate hated ugly crockery. The dinner-service in question was expensive, but that might be in the nature of dinner-services. Furnishing was necessarily expensive; but then it had to be done only once. "It must be lovely," said Mrs. Vincy, when Lydgate mentioned his purchase with some descriptive touches.
The old girl has another trial to undergo after the conclusion of the repast in sitting in state to see the room cleared, the hearth swept, and the dinner-service washed up and polished in the backyard.
Such it seemed to her, till she could have shrieked; but only a few fresh tears started down her cheeks, and she lay enduring it. Dead silence and stillness hung over the dinner-service, when the outer door below was opened, and a light foot sprang up the stairs. There entered a young gentleman in evening dress, with a loose black wrapper drooping from his shoulders.
The sun, drifting away toward other lands, toward other seas, toward other men; the sun, all red in a cloudless sky raked the yacht with a parting salvo of crimson rays that shattered themselves into sparks of fire upon the crystal and silver of the dinner-service, put a short flame into the blades of knives, and spread a rosy tint over the white of plates.
Brail, could you do nothing just to to startle them a little, I mean for fun only? Just ship a heavy sea or two, I don't care for a little damage, Mr. Brail, and if it were to wash over the dinner-service, and all the wine, I should not like it worse. "'Why, sir, you are getting quite funny, the sickness is going. "'No, Mr.
And then the new load of wood came and covered up everything, our best oyster-shell dinner-service and all. Any one can see that it is impossible really to fancy anything when you are constantly interrupted.
As to the dinner-service, it was elegant, and in perfect taste. Each utensil spoon, fork, knife, plate had a letter engraved on it, with a motto above it, of which this is an exact facsimile: MOBILIS IN MOBILI N The letter N was no doubt the initial of the name of the enigmatical person who commanded at the bottom of the seas. Ned and Conseil did not reflect much.
While we were discussing our meal, the cutter heeled over, and nearly sent our scanty dinner-service away to leeward. "Hillo, what's the matter now?" I asked. "Matter! why the breeze is freshening, to be sure," said old Growl, our acting master. "Look out for your plates, and when you go on deck it will be time enough to learn all about it." Old Growl was in many respects not dissimilar to Hanks.
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