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But still he saw Jacqueline in trailing robes, with the gold circlet on her head. Joab at the door announced supper, and the three went into the dining-room, where the red geraniums glowed between the candles. Jacqueline took her place behind the coffee-urn, and Joab waited. The meal went pleasantly on.
It was evident that the sound of his voice distressed the injured woman, who was barely conscious enough to have vague memories of the past. Weary Dr. Devoe was wakened, while George gave Mrs. Willoughby his arm, and gallantly placed her behind the coffee-urn. Even Captain Bodine assumed a measure of cheerfulness during breakfast. When newsboys came galloping up with the morning paper, Mr.
He smiled a little, the superior, one-sided smile she most detested. "You mustn't let the fruit go bad," he observed, "after all my trouble." Olga peered into the coffee-urn, without replying. Max in an exasperating mood could be very exasperating indeed. He pulled out the chair next to her, and sat down. "And how is the beautiful Miss Campion?" he said. Olga looked at him. She could not help it.
I was invited here to breakfast, and I'd like to have it," cried the old gentleman, in a testy voice, which the good-natured gleam in his sharp eyes denied. So everybody pranced into the dining-room, and Bea was placed behind the coffee-urn, and couldn't do a thing but blush, and look too happy and overcome to attend to her duties.
"Oh!" exclaimed Deb, and fell to wondering if the ha'nt would come out if only she and Miranda sat long enough before the tree. It might get hungry. "Will you have another cup?" asked Unity of the guest, her hand upon the coffee-urn. "No? Then let us go and see what is the matter. They are not coming back."
Dick shut his lips tightly, grown too wise to speak. Lena sat one morning behind the coffee-urn so self-absorbed and smiling that Dick wondered. "Mrs. Percival," he remonstrated, "you have a husband at this end of the table. Have you forgotten it? What are you thinking about?" "Dick, I believe I have found a friend a real friend," Lena jerked out. "A good many of them, I should say.
And he cast a half-quizzing, half-malicious look at the round, red-faced individual in question, strongly suggestive of late and unforgotten bickerings over the kitchen coffee-urn and castor. This reply, which was of a nature calculated to deepen the forebodings which had already settled upon the minds of those present, produced a visible effect.
There was something in his manner that she resented, without knowing why. "Well?" she said. "How do you find yourself this morning?" asked Max. "I'm perfectly well, thank you," said Olga briefly. "Ready to start jam-making?" he suggested. Olga went to the coffee-urn. "I really don't know," she said. "I've had other things to think about."
"I never would be idle, but I could choose more pleasant kind of work than sitting in Mr. Dane's office all day; it's the dreariest place I ever got into." "Well, anyhow, Christmas is coming," said Bea, nodding cheerfully over the coffee-urn. "More's the pity," said Kittie disconsolately. "We're not going to get anything; it'll be awful poky."
It was an uncomfortable breakfast-table to which the Harringtons sat down that morning. The lady of the house and Lina, its morning-star, were both absent, and the servant, who stood at the coffee-urn ready to distribute its contents, was a most unsatisfactory substitute. Their absence left a gloom on everything.
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