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"Well," said Hildegarde to herself, "the tea-table will not be quite so pretty as if I had had time to make the wreaths; but they would rather play than have wreaths, and I should not have left it till the last hour, sinner that I am." She proposed "Little Sally Waters," and they all fell to it with ardour.
Emerson was, and described, one twin when he wrote, 'The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior; not in any manner dependent or servile, either on persons, or opinions, or possessions. Walter Pater, had Leonardo painted a Perfect Gentleman's portrait instead of a Perfect Lady's, might have described the other: 'The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the tea-table is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years women had come to desire.
As he came up one of the latter was saying: "It's all Lady Ermyntrude's fault. She always hated Cynthia, and she has a heart of stone." The case again! "Oh, are you going?" said Mrs. Chetwinde. She got up and came away from the tea-table. "D'you like Cynthia Clarke?" she asked. "Yes, very much. She interests me." "Ah?" She looked at him, and seemed about to say something, but did not speak.
We left our wraps in the hall, and went straight into the drawing-room. I have been there so often since that I hardly remember my first impression. Mme. A. told me she found them all rolled up in a bundle in the garret when she married. A tea-table was standing before the sofa, and various people working and having their tea. They counted eight guns.
"After Green Point Camp and Orange River I shall never forget the dust-storm we had there! and Springfontein and Kaffir River oh, the heat there, Rose! and Kaalfontein and all the rest of it. It was near Kaalfontein that we first came under fire. I shan't forget that." He was silent for a moment. She looked at him across the tea-table.
"You speak as I like to hear you, Ducie; but I must be going, for a deal falls to my oversight now." And she rose quickly from the tea-table, and as she tied on her bonnet, began to sing, "'God bless the sheep upon the fells! Oh, do you hear the tinkling bells Of sheep that wander on the fells?
Meanwhile, the moment Lucy had finished her duties at the tea-table, she hastened to Damerel's cottage, in the hope, not of seeing her lover, but his mother, alone. The old dame, perceiving her pale and in low spirits, thought she divined the cause, by supposing the girl was sorrowing at the imprudence of the step Luke had proposed to her.
His father's frauds ruined hundreds of poor people. How can I receive him here, as if nothing had happened? It ought not to be forgotten. He himself ought to wish to live quietly!" Diana gave a hesitating assent, adding: "But I'm sorry for Mr. Brenner!" Mr. Ferrier, as she spoke, leaned slightly across the tea-table as though to listen to what she said. Lady Lucy moved away, and Mr.
Dab must be hungry, too, after all that roof-sweeping." There had been a sharp strain on the nerves of all of them that day and evening; and they were glad enough to gather around the tea-table, while all that was now left of the old barn smouldered peaceably away with half the boys in the village on guard.
"I suppose I must kiss you," she said. "I hope you won't be naughty again." The boy made no sign at the moment, but presently he sauntered back to the tea-table as if he were satisfied. When the children were gone Sir Shadwell asked for an explanation.
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