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Updated: May 27, 2025
From early morning till noon, the breakfast-tables were spread with wines and luxurious viands in constant succession, to all comers and at every moment. The dinner and supper were daily banquets for a multitude of guests. The highest nobles were not those alone who were entertained. Men of lower degree were welcomed with a charming hospitality which made them feel themselves at their ease.
News of the sad event was slowly making its way through the avenue, and some of the Armstrongs' nearest neighbours had left their breakfast-tables to express their interest and to hear the particulars. Among these stood the lady of the house; but Mr. Armstrong was nowhere within sight. For him the breakfast waited.
On the night of Hamilton's death, as a certain city editor in Park row read the proof of the "day's story," he called one of his reporters to his desk and let him wait there while he himself rapidly penciled out the "Stud-horse head" which should, tomorrow morning, shock many breakfast-tables.
Liqueurs are always placed with coffee on French breakfast-tables. Every one takes a teaspoonful as a help to digestion. French people are greatly astonished at the absence of liqueurs in England. The excellence of French digestions generally would not seem to discredit the habit.
He secreted himself in a doorway awhile, to see if any one would appear, but no one came. The early risers the milkmen and bakers' apprentices going their rounds, shop boys on their way to kindle fires in stores all stopped to look at the figure. The news quickly spread. People left their breakfast-tables to see the joke played on Mr. Lillie.
How many brave hearts during the late war felt themselves far more than repaid for all their hardships in the field and their agony in the hospital by reading their names in despatches, or merely in the list of wounded, and thinking of the breakfast-tables far away at which that name had been spied out and read with mingled exultation and pity.
With morning newspapers in their hands, men rushed from the breakfast-tables into the streets to meet their fellow-men. What was it that they should do? Detailed accounts of the affair came rapidly, but there was nothing in them to quiet the national indignation; the American flag had been hauled down by Englishmen, an American naval vessel had been fired into and captured; that was enough!
She dared not even summon a locksmith, for locksmith tongues are free; and who would not shoot out the lip at poor Jeanne, hearing the miserable story at breakfast-tables to-morrow? "You must marry Jeanne, mon cousin," cried mamma through the keyhole. "Impossible, ma cousine. You know I am fiancé," laughed he. Nevertheless he did!
"Why not go an' see your father? Seems to me 'e is the one that would know most about it." Mr. Nugent stood for a minute considering, and then raising the latch of the door opened it slowly and inhaled the cold morning air. A subtle and delicate aroma of coffee and herrings which had escaped from neighbouring breakfast-tables invaded the room and reminded him of an appetite.
When a young reporter, gathering human-interest stories about the event from the pitiful wreckage in the hospitals, happened on Clare Gould, he got a feature-story for the Sunday edition that made Audrey's own world, reading it in bed or over its exquisite breakfast-tables, gasp with amazement. For, following up Clare's story, he found that Audrey had done much more than run toward the telephone.
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