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Just wait, sir, till you have children of your own!" Under her guidance he bore stacks of plates across the yard to the dining-room where the blinds were lowered to keep the room cool and strewed these, and corresponding knives and forks, up and down the tables. He also carried over the heavy soup-tureen in which was the claret-cup.
In a burst of rage the poor boy raised the soup-tureen, and would infallibly have shattered it on the man's head if Jack had not caught his arm. "Come, Wilkins, mind what you're about," he said, pushing him towards the forepart of the ship to prevent a scuffle. A moment's reflection sufficed to convince Wilkins of the folly, as well as uselessness, of rebellion.
She was already studying the stranger through the glass. "That's a new build of boat to me," she muttered, giving Wilbur the glass. Wilbur looked long and carefully. The newcomer was of the size and much the same shape as a caravel of the fifteenth century high as to bow and stern, and to all appearances as seaworthy as a soup-tureen.
This was hard upon the lady, as her own table-napkin and a cup out of which she was wont to drink were placed at that spot. Marie, standing at the soup-tureen, heard it all and became very spiteful. Then her uncle called to her: 'Marie, my dear, are you not coming? 'Presently, uncle, replied Marie, in a clear voice, as she commenced to dispense the soup.
But as all these pictures had turned very black, and had even become warped, all that met the eye was patches of flesh-colour, or a billowy red drapery on an invisible body or an arch which seemed suspended in the air, or a dishevelled tree with blue foliage, or the bosom of a nymph with a large nipple, like the cover of a soup-tureen; a sliced watermelon, with black seeds; a turban, with a feather above a horse's head; or the gigantic, light-brown leg of some apostle or other, with a muscular calf and up-turned toes, suddenly protruded itself.
An hour later the soup-tureen was placed on the table; and Magdalen stood alone behind the admiral's empty chair, waiting her master's first inspection of her when he entered the dining-room.
All that was lacking now was our guests Catherine, Aunt Grédel, the grave-digger, and Zébédé. We walked up and down laughing and saying, "Everything is in its place and we had best get out the soup-tureen." And I looked out now and then to see if they were coming.
'Did you hear what he said? inquired the charcoal-burner in an awe-stricken voice. 'We are to have what we want, and do what we please. Only we must not touch the soup-tureen. 'No, of course we won't, answered the wife. 'Why should we wish to? But all the same it is rather odd, and one can't help wondering what is inside.
She turned to the tablecloth-press and began to unwind it in silence. Mrs. Peck sniffed, and took up the soup-tureen. As she waddled out of the kitchen Columbine withdrew the parlour tablecloth and turned round. "If you're really sorry," she said, "I'll forgive you." Rufus regarded her for several seconds in silence, a slow smile dawning in his eyes. "Thank you," he said finally.
I am going to see my pigs fed, then into the village. "I shall peep behind the soup-tureen." "And there I shall be, if I am alive." At dinner the old boy threw himself into the work with such zeal that soon after the cloth was removed, from fatigue and repletion, he dropped asleep, with his shoulder toward Lucy, but his face instinctively turned toward the fire.
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