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There were very few boarders left in the house on this day, and the group that gathered about the big turkey was like one large family. Billy carved, and Susan with two paper candle-shades pinned above her ears, like enormous rosettes, was more like her old silly merry self than these people who loved her had seen her for years. It was nearly eight o'clock when Mrs.
"She is just getting into tone," Bond re-enforced, "with the candle-shades and the peppermints." "Medora," declared the painter, "is as sensible and capable a girl as I know. Why, the very dress she wore that afternoon You noticed it?" "I I " began Abner. "No, you didn't of course you didn't. Well, she made every stitch of it with her own hands."
What a superb figure she made at the head of the splendid table under the pink lights of the candle-shades! How gracefully she ordered this away, and that brought, even while she laughed and chatted so delightfully. And she she that superb woman of birth, manners, and position could be had for the asking.
I'll try," she whispered back. Her face cleared at once, and as she looked at him across the flowers, between the rosy candle-shades, he saw her lips waver back into a smile. "How pretty everything is!" she sighed luxuriously. He turned to the butler. "The champagne at once, please. Mrs. Waythorn is tired." In a moment or two their eyes met above the sparkling glasses.
During the little repast he kept the talk on his hostess, who, fluttered at being the centre of observation, shone as rosy as the candle-shades she had manufactured for the occasion.
She advanced passionately upon the strewn dinner-table; it waited there to be cleared by the work of her hands, as imperturbable as he. She dashed off the candle-shades first. "What a day!" she gasped.
Did you ever see anything as lovely as that basket of lilies of the valley and mignonette? They look like they're nodding and peeping at you, and these little vases of them in between the candlesticks are just to fill in, she says. She brought her candle-shades because she didn't think you had any to go with lilies of the valley and mignonette.
He was boarding rather roughly with a landlady who, like himself, was from "down state" and who had never cultivated fastidiousness in table-linen or in tableware, and he sniffed at the fanciful cups and spoons and pink candle-shades that helped to insure the attendance of the "desirable people," as the Burrow phrased it, and at the manifold methods of tea-making that were designed to turn the desirable people into profitable patrons.
They still had a pretty dinner-table, a dinner-table almost, if not quite, up to early-married standards, and the shaded candles were lighted and beneath them there were cut flowers. He never wondered how Marie managed to stretch that weekly thirty-two and sixpence to cover the cost of a third baby, occasional new candle-shades and perpetual flowers. It was better not to inquire.
She could hear her heart beating while there was some parley in the hall. Unable to bear it any more, she opened the door. It was someone with a parcel. 'What is it? 'It's only the new candle-shades, miss. Shall I bring them in for you to see? 'No, thank you.... Candle-shades! She put her hands over her eyes and summoned all her pride.
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