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On the napkins were cards with the names of the party. He read first: "Arsene Lupin." "Mme. Arsene Lupin." He took up the third card and started back with surprise. It bore his own name: "Isidore Beautrelet!" A curtain was drawn back. "Good morning, my dear Beautrelet, you're a little late. Lunch was fixed for twelve. However, it's only a few minutes but what's the matter? Don't you know me?
A great many gay groups of ladies and gentlemen were seated at these tables, taking dinner; while the waiters, with snow-white napkins on their arms, were walking about in a rapid, but in a very gentle and noiseless manner, to wait upon them.
Servants should be taught to preserve the proprieties of the feast, if the meal be served under the trees. There should be no piles of dishes, knives, forks, or spoons, visible on the green grass; baskets should be in readiness to carry off everything as soon as used. There should be a sufficient quantity of glass and china in use, and plenty of napkins, so that there need be no delay.
"Listen to the voice from Pee-wee's old patrol!" said Roy. "Eats! I'll fry some killies. Haven't we got some milk chocolate and Ulika biscuits? I bet there's a large crowd of peanuts and other junk in Pee-wee's locker. Can't you wait till you get to Minerva's? She'll have chicken salad and ice cream and sandwiches and cake and lemonade and paper napkins and souvenirs and everything.
Here the table was laid for dinner, covered with the finest diaper, and snow white napkins, and silver wine coolers, and silver forks, and fine steel, and cut glass, and cool green finger glasses with lime leaves floating within, and tall wax lights shaded from the breeze in thin glass barrels, and an epergne filled with flowers, with a fragrant fresh gathered lime in each of the small leaf like branches, and salt cellars with red peppers in them, &c. &c. all of which made the tout ensemble the most captivating imaginable to a hungry man.
I have no doubt in the world she scours the coppers with the table napkins and washes her face and hands in the soup tureen." "Oh, father!" said Clara. "Well, Clare, at least she wants looking after." "Father, she wants rest in her old age." "No doubt of it; no doubt of it."
They must have cups to drink out of; these basins are horrible." It was humorous to the men, this housewifely suggestion. "Oh, make it napkins, Allie!" "You can laugh, but I sh'an't rest after seeing this. If you thought I was going to say, 'Oh, how picturesque! you're mistaken. I think it's barbarous." She was getting impatient of their patronizing laughter, as if she were a child.
But after Bannon had caught Max's signals to step out of hearing of the others, and before he had risen, there was a moment when Pete's attention was drawn by one of the waiters, and he said: "Can you go with me Monday?" She looked frightened, and the blood rose in her cheeks so that she had to bend low over her pile of napkins. "Will you?" He was pushing back his chair.
He looked at her thoughtfully for a few seconds, then resumed his reading of the Mad Philosopher, out of whose essays he seemed to extract a great deal of quiet amusement. A day or two after that Hazel came into the kitchen and found Bill piling towels, napkins, and a great quantity of other soiled articles on an outspread tablecloth. "Well," she inquired, "what are you going to do with those?"
In the inventory one may find commentary upon the valuation of these goods "silk gowns and pettecoats" for L6-10, twenty-two napkins at seven shillings, and three "great pewter dishes" and twenty small pieces of pewter for two pounds, six shillings. She had gowns, mantles, head bands, fourteen in number, seventeen linen caps, six white aprons, pocket-handkerchiefs and all other articles of dress.
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