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As I live, he here mentioned dear gr-nny's MAIDEN name. Her maiden name was . Her honored married name was . "She married your great gr-ndf-th-r the year Poseidon won the Newmarket Plate," Mr. Pinto dryly remarked. Merciful powers! I remember, over the old shagreen knife and spoon case on the sideboard in my gr-nny's parlor, a print by Stubbs of that very horse.
I hadn't dreamed in those days when Billy and I sat alone on the steps of the treasures that were shut up behind us. The old furniture was dusty, but all the dust in the world couldn't hide its beauty. The dining-room was hung with cobwebs, but when the candles were lighted we saw the Sheffield on the old sideboard, the Chinese porcelains, the Heppelwhite chairs, the painted sheepskin screen
He lay abed late in the morning, dozing between the warm sheets; he overfed himself at table, and drank too much wine; he ate between meals, having filled his sideboard with canned patés, potted birds, and devilled meats; while upon the bamboo table stood a tin box of chocolates out of which he ate whole handfuls at a time.
"What's the matter?" "Blind, speechless and paralytic. Come and look." The table in his room was nicely laid for dinner, and several decanters with a large cold tart lay upon the sideboard. On the sofa was stretched our unfortunate host, his head back, his forked beard pointing to the cornice, and a half finished tumbler of whisky upon the chair beside him.
Surely he had wandered through dreamland into some corner of the Arabian Nights? else he had passed from one extreme of life to the other with a strange, almost magical, celerity. Dinner surprised him by being so pleasantly homely. A single trim maidservant waited upon them, a man at the sideboard opened the wine, carved, and vanished early in the repast.
His face was as white as a clout. His voice was like a nutmeg-grater. "Miss Percival here at once." It was all he said. She did her bidding, for servants must but her heart bled for Miss Percival, and she felt like fainting at any minute when she waited at luncheon. He drank brandy jerked his head towards the sideboard when he wanted more. Never said a word. And how he ate, wrenching at his food!
But you know Mallorca you have seen for yourself." The captain was not listening; he was looking at the modest lodging- house sideboard. "I was wondering," he explained, with a transparent simplicity which was perhaps as good as that which is called good breeding, "whether you would take a glass of sherry wine." "I should like nothing better," said the Count.
"Cassidy seems to know nothing about the code-cipher," she whispered. "I think he rummaged on general principles, not in search of any code-book." She looked around the dining-room. The doors of the yellow oak sideboard were open, but no book was there among the plated knives and forks and the cheap dishes.
Financial necessities once caused the sale of Whistler's choice furnishings. Some of the family, returning to the house during his absence, found the floor covered with chalk diagrams, the largest of which was labeled: "This is the dining-table." Surrounding it were a number of small squares, each marked: "This is a chair." Another square: "This is the sideboard."
We'll turn it on its side, put hinges and a padlock on the cover to make it into a door, and fix up shelves." "I see," nodded her mother and aunt. "That will be your store cupboard." "And our sideboard and our linen closet, all in one. We're going to make it when we go home this afternoon because we know now what the measurements are and we've got just the right box down in the cellar."
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