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The chair should be neither too near nor too far from the table; both are ungraceful and awkward. The dinner napkin is from twenty to twenty-four inches across. If the napkins are monogrammed the monogram should be placed so as to be in plain view. At a formal dinner the first course is on the table when the guests enter the dining-room.
"Aren't the other" she had to stop to clear her throat "aren't the other men going to have napkins?" "They wouldn't know what they were for." His easy tone gave her a momentary sense of relief. "They'd tie them on their hats, or make balls to throw around." He paused, but added: "It wouldn't look bad, though, would it? to stand them up this way on all the tables." She made no reply.
Millie, too, lost her tension; she showed a feminine pleasure at the yacht's fine napkins, approved the polish of the glass. "It's all quite wonderful," she said. "I have nothing else to care for," Woolfolk told her. "No place nor people on land?" "None." "And you are satisfied?" "Absolutely," he replied with an unnecessary emphasis.
These pretty little trifles can serve several times the purpose of ornamenting the finger-bowl. Napkins, when laid away in a chest or drawer, should have some pleasant, cleanly herb like lavender or sweet-grass, or the old- fashioned clover, or bags of Oriental orris-root, put between them, that they may come to the table smelling of these delicious scents.
He had brought a hamper with all the necessaries of life table-cloth, napkins, knives, forks, spoons, cold pie, salad, and champagne. They lunched beside the brook on the lawn.
In one, the startled editor beheld a nest of tall glasses; in another, a number of interesting flasks lying in a porcelain container among chipped ice. In the lid was an array of straws, napkins, a flat tray labeled CLOVES, and a bunch of what looked uncommonly like mint leaves. Mr. Bleak did not speak, but his pulse was disorderly.
Strike it three times with the three napkins and it will part in two. Then ride into the opening, and when you are in the middle of the opening, throw the three cakes behind your back with your left hand. Peter thanked her for her counsel, and was careful to do exactly all the old woman had told him.
For a moment she fancied that he had joined in the tiny prayer, and was about to make the sacred sign, but as she looked at him his hand fell heavily to the table. The glasses by his plate jingled. "I only remembered this morning that this is a jour maigre," said Count Anteoni as they unfolded their napkins.
When I go to town I can buy you things that would look queer if you sent for them. Towels and napkins and " Jack gave a whoop at that, though his ignorance of primitive living did not fall far short of hers. But in the main, he took her advice with praiseworthy gratitude. He had never expected to enjoy being an outlaw.
Absolutely clean napkins and tray cloths, a few green leaves about the plate, a rose on the tray; the chop or piece of chicken, the bird or the piece of steak ornamented with sprigs of parsley, the cold things really cold, and the hot ones hot, these are necessities of invalid's feeding, that mark the nurse who has a proper appreciation of a sick person's delicate sensibilities.
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