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The crumb tray is brought, and the table-cloth is cleared of all stray fragments. A rolled napkin makes a quiet brush for this purpose, especially on a finely polished damask cloth. The dessert is now in order. Finger-bowls and doylies are brought in on the dessert-plates. Each person at once removes the bowl and doyley to make ready for whatever is to be put on the plate.
I had to make haste for fear of some new visitor, who, like the Jew, might insist on the cell being swept. I began by drawing back my bed, and after lighting my lamp I lay down on my belly, my pike in my hand, with a napkin close by in which to gather the fragments of board as I scooped them out. My task was to destroy the board by dint of driving into it the point of my tool.
"All dainty meats I do defy Which feed men fat as swine; He is a frugal man, indeed, That on a leaf can dine. "He needs no napkin for his hands His fingers' ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe." And so on, the singers of succeeding years, usque ad nauseam, a loathing equalled only by that of the earlier writers for the plant, now so lauded.
Although Nekhludoff had often dined with and knew Korchagin well, this evening his old face, his sensual, smacking lips, the napkin stuck under his vest, the fat neck, and especially the well-fed, military figure made an unpleasant impression on him.
The original troupe stuffs a napkin, half-way in size between a bath-towel and a tablecloth, inside its neck-band so as to protect its clothes against the little taches concerning which, as a rule, it is more anxious in relation to its costume than its character in the play; but our better-bred players ignore this, and merely spread their "serviettes" upon their unimperilled knees.
"I am thinking of going to Oxford next week," said the tutor, elaborately folding up his napkin, addressing his co-trustee. "Have you any message I can give to any of your acquaintances there?" "I think it would be a pity for you to leave Maxfield just now. One of us should remain." "Yes, do stay. We'll have such larks," said Tom.
Then there was something grandiose in the frank bourgeois style wherewith he expanded his napkin and twisted one end into his waistcoat; it was so manly a renunciation of the fashions which a man so repandu in all circles might be supposed to follow, as if he were both too great and too much in earnest for such frivolities.
When it has made the circuit, its members retire to their places, and the chariots are shut in their stalls. Soon the president takes his stand in his box, lifts a large handkerchief or napkin, and drops it.
"The general," said she, "had too much to drink; he is an envious devil, and has discovered that it is not seemly of you to treat us as if you were a prince. I told him that, on the contrary, you had treated us as if we were princes, waiting on us with your napkin on your arm. He thereupon found fault with me for degrading you." "Why do you not send him about his business?
I've pretty often declared in my own mind that Dorette and you came along just in the nick of time to save me." "Me too," put in Dodo, insistent on general principles. "And me!" added Camille, laughing and squeezing the baby afresh, her moods as quick to change as those of capricious April, always. "Yes, the whole shirackety of you," returned Larry, folding his napkin.
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