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Hugo spoke no word. 'I'll put the room to rights, sir, said Simon, after a pause. He could bear the inaction no longer. Hugo nodded absently, and Simon collected the ruins of the vile repast which his master had consumed, and put them outside on a tray on the landing. 'There's a light now in the first story! exclaimed Hugo. 'I hope that boy won't be long.
The table held a japanned tray with tea-cups, a milk jug and plates of biscuits and by it, in an attitude that looked deliberately picturesque stood Ouardi, the youth selected by Batouch to fill the office of butler in the desert.
But she would not let herself be sorry then, and stifled the voice by saying, half aloud, as she went along: "I don't care. It's too bad of mother. I wish she wouldn't." Wealthy met her at the stair-foot. "How long you've been!" she said, taking the tray from her. "I can't be any quicker when I have to keep going for more things," said Eyebright.
"I must go and help them get tea," said Ide, "if you'll excuse me." I said "of course," with alacrity, and hoped soon to see a tray coming out into the verandah, where it was so cool and breezy now. Half an hour passed, however, and nothing happened. It was getting on towards six o'clock, and a smell of frying floated to us from the kitchen.
But I think his mood is wisest when he accepts the "foreign" easy surrender to <i>all</i> the senses as the sign of an unconscious philosophy of life, instilled by the experience of centuries the philosophy of people who have lived long and much, who have discovered no short cuts to happiness and no effective circumvention of effort, and so have come to regard the average lot as a ponderous fact that absolutely calls for a certain amount of sitting on the lighter tray of the scales.
"For a minute she stared down at these from over her tray, and then she remarked very low and very quietly: "'Another bowl, Humphrey, and fresh curds from the kitchen. I will do the seasoning. The doses are too small to be skipped. You won't? I had shaken my head 'But you will! It will not be the first time you have gone down the hall with this mixture. "'But that was before I knew I began.
Woe to the Kamschatdale that gets in their tray at such a time for the bear, instead of waiting to be attached, becomes himself the assailant; and, as great numbers of these quadrupeds often troop about together, of course the encounter is all the more perilous.
"Please to take them; I shall feel very bad, if you don't." Tommy Howard looked her in the eye a moment; he saw a tear there. Her pride was wounded, and he took the two cents from the tray, for he did not wish to give her pain. "Now, we are square, Tommy," said Katy, as her face brightened up again. "Yes, we are, but I don't like it pretty well.
Neither one utters a word or glances at the other for some few minutes; the host remains seated, fidgeting with a cigarette and gazing upon the floor; the visitor sitting beside him looks stolidly over the heads of his followers, and perhaps clears his throat or coughs. Presently a woman thrusts into the semicircle a tray of freshly made cigarettes.
This tray contained port, sherry and claret, a silver kettle of hot water, sugar, lemons and nutmeg, as well as two large plates of sandwiches. All the ladies devoured wholly superfluous sandwiches, and took a glass of wine and hot water before retiring. I think people would be surprised to find how excellent a beverage the obsolete "negus" is.
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