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Elegantly clad servants hovered noiselessly behind the convives the wine circulated the fragrant smoke rose the conversation became general and all was animation. "No, sir!" says Mr. Torpedo, puffing fiercely at his cigar, "the President never will assign Johnston to command again, sir! You call Mr. Davis 'pig-headed, Mr. Croker you are wrong, sir! You do injustice to the pigs, sir!
It was such a pretty picture the noble diningroom, the table sparkling with glass and silver and glowing with masses of choicest flowers from the conservatory, the animated convives, and Margaret presiding, radiant in a costume of white and gold. "After all," Morgan was saying, apropos of the position of women, "men get mighty little out of it in the modern arrangement." "I've always said, Mr.
"He's been with Ponce de Leon!" cried Miss Tavish. "He's the dearest man living, except a few," echoed Carmen. "The Major's health." The yellow wine sparkled in the glasses like the sparkling sea, the wind blew softly from the south, the sails in the bay darkened and flashed, and the breakfast, it seemed to go along of itself, and erelong the convives were eating ambrosia and sipping nectar.
As soon as this startling fact was mentioned, however, both the convives set about repairing the accident, by squeezing lemons, sweetening water, and mixing liquors, secundem artem. At the same time, each lighted a cigar, and the conversation, for some time, was carried on between their teeth.
The convives on this occasion were merely the admiral himself, Greenly, and Atwood. The fare was substantial, rather than scientific; but the service was rich; Sir Gervaise uniformly eating off of plate. In addition to Galleygo, no less than five domestics attended to the wants of the party.
At that day, tea was known throughout southern Europe as an ingredient only for the apothecary's keeping; nor was it often to be found among his stores; and the convives used, as a substitute, large draughts of the pleasant mountain liquors of the adjacent main, which produced an excitement scarcely greater, while it may be questioned if it did as much injury to the health.
A luxurious dinner was ordered, and the silent man was busied scanning the convives when Emil Einstein, cautiously entering without haste, furtively regarded all the diners. They were the better class of artists musical virtuosos, and floating foreigners of the Teutonic business circles of lower New York.
It was devoured to the rind, after which the convives reclined luxuriously upon a mound of excelsior beside an empty crate. "Penny grabs!" cried the host with a fresh inspiration, and they cheered him. One of the five volunteered to go for them and the money-drunken host confided the price of three of them to him.
They might have seen this doorway without knowing it; but from the window overlooking the parade-ground where his family watched the manoeuvres of his gigantic grenadiers, they made sure of just such puddles as Frederick William forced his family to sit with their feet in, while they dined alfresco on pork and cabbage; and they visited the room of the Smoking Parliament where he ruled his convives with a rod of iron, and made them the victims of his bad jokes.
It was such a pretty picture the noble diningroom, the table sparkling with glass and silver and glowing with masses of choicest flowers from the conservatory, the animated convives, and Margaret presiding, radiant in a costume of white and gold. "After all," Morgan was saying, apropos of the position of women, "men get mighty little out of it in the modern arrangement." "I've always said, Mr.
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