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These came from Eloise, Daisy's other cousin. Mrs. Gary had brought her two beautiful toilet bottles of Bohemian glass. Daisy's end of the table was growing full. "What is this?" said Mrs. Gary, taking from the épergne a sealed note directed to Daisy. "That is Ransom's present. Give her mine first," said Mr. Randolph. "Which is yours? I don't see anything more."
When the forest of flowers had been dispersed in the epergne, and in various bowls and glasses, to ornament the drawing-room, the three sisters began to collect the green leaves and pieces of stalks remaining on the table, and as they bent down to sweep them off into a basket, their heads chanced to be almost close together. 'Why, Lizzie, said Lady Merton, 'where are your curls?
It may be low and flat, like a floral mat, in the middle of the table, or it may be a lofty epergne, or an inter-lacing of delicate vine-wreathed arches, or a single basket of feathery maidenhair fern in fact, anything that is pretty and which the inspiration of the moment may suggest.
"Wot's the matter, Lord Bolinbroke?" inquired the sarcastic bartender; "want a chiny vase or a gold-lined épergne to drink it out of hey?" "Say," said Mr. McQuirk, wheeling and shooting out a horizontal hand and a forty-five-degree chin, "you know your place only when it comes for givin' titles. I've changed me mind about drinkin see? You got your money, ain't you?
Ere it was ended Elsie came in, bearing a waiter on which stood a silver epergne filled with fruit, a basket of cake, and a goblet of iced tea. "My child, I bring your supper here because the dining-room looks lonesome at night." "No, no! take it away. I tell you I want nothing." "But, for my sake, dear " "Let me alone, Elsie! There, there! Don't teaze me."
Is that what mamma calls being a fanatic?" Daisy's meditations were broken off; for a general stir round the table made her look up. The table was cleared, and the servants were bringing on the fruit; and with the fruit they were setting on the table a beautiful old fashioned silver épergne, that was never used but for great occasions.
The inner half could be shut away by folding-doors, and its highly polished sideboard, chairs, table, a silver epergne towering upon it, glimmered in a dusky element that relegated it, when not illuminated for use, to a mere ghostly decorativeness. By contrast, the drawing-room was vivid.
"Push that thing in the middle on one side, Burrill," he said. "It's too high. I can't see Miss Alicia." Burrill found it difficult to believe the evidence of his hearing. "The epergne, sir? " he inquired. "Is that what it's called, an apern? That's a new one on me. Yes, that's what I mean. Push the apern over." "Shall I remove it from the table, sir?" Burrill steeled himself to exact civility.
But the nymph? perhaps she came there by her beauty to dignify this use made of the stately old thing. However, she forgot all about fanatics and Mr. Dinwiddie for the present. The looks and smiles of the company were unmistakable. Who would speak first? "How are you to reach the épergne, Daisy?" said her father. "Shall I be the medium?" said Mrs. Gary.
The great elk's head at the far end wagged solemnly backward and forward, while the massive salvers on the tables performed cotillons with the claret cooler and the epergne. My head fell upon my breast from sheer heaviness, and I should have become unconscious had I not been recalled to myself by the opening of the door at the other end of the hall.
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