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"I'll just take one glimpse," she added hurriedly. She put the tablecloth away in its drawer and ran into the little sitting-room. The old floor, under its gay covering of rag-carpet and home-made rugs, sank and creaked with even her light weight. At the sound a querulous voice from the veranda called "Arabella, Arabella!" Miss Arabella looked severe. "Polly!" she cried, appearing at the door.
He sat down clumsily in a chair, felt for a pipe that he smoked unwillingly because it was the manly thing to do, spurted some Apollinaris into a glass and over the tablecloth, struck many matches vainly, dropped tobacco on to the carpet. His heart was beating like a hammer! How men would stare when they saw him with Dune.
We may as well face it now as ever, and come to the final conclusion. I know you started out to make me into a minister. I know you feel that it is the one great profession of them all. But is it?" For a minute, her hands gripped each other; but they were underneath the hanging edge of tablecloth, and so invisible to Scott.
He had hardly finished when Zelie made her appearance with some plates and a tablecloth, and began to lay the covers. Seeing the fire had gone out, the little servant uttered an exclamation of dismay. "Oh!" cried she, "so the wood didn't flare!" He gazed at her as if she were talking Hebrew, and it was at least a minute before he understood that by "flare" she meant kindle.
I strongly suspected the young farmer of squeezing her hand privately, under cover of the tablecloth. The supper was not a merry one. The only cheerful conversation was the conversation across the table between Naomi and me. For some incomprehensible reason, John Jago seemed to be ill at ease in the presence of his young countrywoman.
Joe had unlocked the padlock of the cellar trapdoor; he had gone down and had unlocked another padlock upon a great box. And all that which he had brought out, beginning with a white tablecloth and ending with nuts and raisins, had been a revelation to his boy assistant.
Molly was helping her mother to "get supper," and the red tablecloth and heavy white china, never removed from the kitchen table except to be washed, were beginning to be heaped with pickles, doughnuts, pie, and cake, and there were potatoes and pork frying on the stove. Katherine was studying, and Edith had gone to hastily "spread up" the beds that had not been made that morning.
Nan had produced the banquet-board a board literally as well as figuratively from which many a feast, seasoned as no viands were elsewhere, had been eaten in Rainbow Valley. It was converted into a table by propping it on two large, mossy stones. Newspapers served as tablecloth, and broken plates and handleless cups from Susan's discard furnished the dishes.
Shining in early light, the Saone was spread, like a smooth white tablecloth, over a considerable part of the flat country that I traversed.
He soon reached the dead stump, upon which his cap still rested, and going up to the mother oak, said to her: "O Oak Tree so green, and with acorns of gold, In my helplessness I to thee cry; In Heaven's great name now to beg I make bold, My pressing needs pray satisfy." The oak moved, and shook its branches: but instead of golden acorns, a tablecloth fell into the fool's hands.
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