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"See abt road M D See L See E & M tea-set See abt L." See Lossing, see Esther and Maggie, and remember about tea-set. See about Lossing." His memoranda written, he slipped the book in his pocket, reflecting cynically, "There's habit! I've no need of writing that. It's not pleasant enough to forget!"
"Pay me for it, will you? and how much will you give me three cents?" "Oh, I'll give you twenty-five cents." "Twenty-five cents for a cup of good green tea, without any milk or sugar in it!" I called the ward to witness the bargain, said I should grow rich at that rate, and hurried off for the tea. I had a little silver tray and tea-set, with two china cups. Mrs.
Presently she went on, more to herself than to him: "Miss Wickham had a beautiful old silver teapot, a George Second. She was awfully proud of it. And she was proud of her tea-set; it was old Worcester. And she wouldn't let anyone wash the tea things but " Again, her voice failed her. "And two or three times a week an old Indian judge came in to tea.
See " and Elsie pointed triumphantly to a chair, which she had pulled up close to the bed, and on which were solemnly set forth: 1st. A pewter tea-set; 2d. A box with a glass lid, on which flowers were painted; 3d. A jointed doll; 4th. A transparent slate; and lastly, two new lead pencils! "They're all yours yours to keep," said generous little Elsie. "You can have Pikery, too, if you want.
John C., now with an exuberant relish of her news, "an' when he was comin' home along by the old Pelton house he sees a kind of a tramp goin' in there. He was youngish, Sam said, an' he had on a light coat, an' the pockets on 't bulged. What do you think o' that? Minute he said it, I says to myself, 'That's Ann's tea-set."
"No," said the girl, carefully drying and arranging the quaint Egyptian tea-set, "and I won't for ages." "But you're not going to wash all those things? The concierge does that." "No, only the wine-glasses and the tea-set. The idea of trusting such fragile cups to a concierge! What a boy!" But she was soon ready to dry her slender hands, and caught up a towel with a demure glance at Gethryn.
Sickness she could bear, or death if it should come, because they were factors of the common lot; but it had never occurred to her that so resplendent a thing as a silver tea-set could belong to any one and then be reft away. The dusk gathered and thickened. The frogs were peeping down by the old willows, and for the first time in her life the melancholy of early spring lay cold upon her heart.
"Oh, it's a new tea-set for the schoolroom," cried Blanche. "Mother said we needed one." "No, it's not a new tea-set for the schoolroom, Miss Clever. There's a new pupil, and that's quite enough for any schoolroom. You're no good as a guesser, and yet you've been worrying my life out for weeks about this very thing." Mr.
"I feel as if I had really been to China, and I'm sure I look so," said Rose, as they glided out of the shadow of the "Rajah." She certainly did, for Mr. Whang Lo had given her a Chinese umbrella; Uncle Alec had got some lanterns to light up her balcony; the great fan lay in her lap, and the tea-set reposed at her feet.
Mrs. John C. spoke gently, moved out of her energetic sweep and swing. "Law, Ann! don't you take it so terrible hard. 'Tain't wuth it, even a tea-set ain't. What should you say if I told you they'd got onto the track on 't?" "No," said Ann, out of her dull endurance, "they won't ever do that. When a thing o' that kind's gone, it's gone. Don't do no good to make a towse about it.
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