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"And it will help to furnish your house when you get married, Nina." "Ah, Leo," said she, "if you would only think about yourself! It is always to-day, to-morrow, with you: never the coming years " "Yes, I know all about that," he interposed. "Now I'm going to show you how these are used. They're loving-cups, you know, Nina " "Loving-cups?" she repeated, rather timidly.
One we see poisoned by his son, another by his own favourite; and a third will probably fare no better. Mi. Whew! I like not this, my cock. Methinks there is safety in bent backs and leather-cutting, and none in golden loving-cups; I will pledge no man in hemlock or in aconite.
One day he was going through Vigo Street, and noticed in a shop-window a pair of old-fashioned, silver-gilt loving-cups those that interclasp; and forthwith he went in and bought them: "I'll take those; how much are they" being his way of bargaining. In the afternoon he carried them down to Sloane Street.
He had those loving-cups filled one night there was some fancy in his head he could call you back " She was sobbing a little; but she bravely dried her tears, and said, "Tell me what I am to do." But that was precisely what he did not know himself for a moment. He considered. "Come up-stairs," he said. "His family are there. I will tell him a visitor has called to see him.
The low crockery shelves of polished mahogany running the length of the room and filled with rare porcelain, costly Italian glass, medieval silver, antique flagons, loving-cups of gold inlaid with amber and garnets; a dazzling array of candlesticks; a fireplace of shining mosaics; the mahogany table littered with broken glass, full and empty bottles, broken pipes, pools of overturned wine, shredded playing cards, cracked dice, and dead candles; somber-toned pictures and rusted armor lining the walls; the brilliant uniforms of the officers from Fort Louis, the laces and satins of the civilians; the flushed faces, some handsome, some sodden, some made hideous by the chisel and mallet of vice: all these produced a scene at once attractive and repelling.
Unhappily, all this gratitude was unconscious and altogether different from the kind which, results in testimonials and loving-cups. On the contrary! "Penrod Schofield!" He gulped. "Answer me at once! Why did you speak to me like that?" "I was " He choked, unable to continue. "Speak out!" "I was just thinking," he managed to stammer. "That will not do," she returned sharply.
The 'loving-cups' used on certain grand occasions are huge silver goblets, which are passed down the table filled with a delicious composition, immemorially termed 'sack, consisting of sweetened and exquisitely flavored white wine.
In a strong-closet, opening from the hall, there was a great deal of rich plate to furnish forth the banquet-table, comprising hundreds of forks and spoons, a vast silver punch-bowl, the gift of some jolly king or other, and, besides a multitude of less noticeable vessels, two loving-cups, very elaborately wrought in silver gilt, one presented by Henry VIII., the other by Charles II. These cups, including the covers and pedestals, are very large and weighty, although the bowl-part would hardly contain more than half a pint of wine, which, when the custom was first established, each guest was probably expected to drink off at a draught.
Maybe Beaudry and I aren't sending any loving-cups up to you and yours, but we don't pull any of that sulk-in-the-tent stuff when our good friend Beulah Rutherford is lost in the hills. She went through for us proper, and we ain't going to quit till we bring her back to you as peart and sassy as that calf there." "What part of the country do you want us to work?" asked Ryan.
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