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The dinner-service, too, was neither conspicuously hideous for High Art nor for Low Art, but was of a pleasant and pure appearance. Concerning the viands and their cookery, one last remark. I dined at my club in Pall-Mall aforesaid, a few days afterwards, for exactly twelve times the money, and not half as well. The company thickened after one o'clock struck, and changed pretty quickly.
I remember a modern French grave, near La Rochelle; in the centre of the head-cross was a glass case, with a doll dinner-service enclosed, that had been a favourite toy with the poor little mite lying under the cross. So human hearts are the same as centuries roll by and religions alter. The cathedral of Narbonne is very delightful, after a course of castellated fortress-churches of early date.
It was plainer now than ever that his notion of remaining much longer a bachelor had been a mistake: marriage would not be an obstruction but a furtherance. And happening the next day to accompany a patient to Brassing, he saw a dinner-service there which struck him as so exactly the right thing that he bought it at once.
The furniture, the clocks, linen, dinner-service, all seemed patriarchal; novel in form because of their very age.
Such it seemed to her, till she could have shrieked; but only a few fresh tears started down her cheeks, and she lay enduring it. Dead silence and stillness hung over the dinner-service, when the outer door below was opened, and a light foot sprang up the stairs. There entered a young gentleman in evening dress, with a loose black wrapper drooping from his shoulders.
"Parade he by no chance ever misses," says our Demon friend. "At the stroke of twelve," continues Preuss, "dinner is served. Dinner threefold; that is, a second table and a third. "The dinner-service was of beautiful porcelain; not silver, still less gold, except on the grandest occasions. King himself drinks Bergerac, or other clarets, with water.
He had now achieved this, and from all who did not think it a bad precedent, his honorable exertions had won him due esteem; but in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service. Mrs. Vincy had never been at her ease with Mrs.
The glasses were those old goblets with stems and feet which may be seen in the pictures of the Dutch or Flemish school. The dinner-service of faience, decorated with raised colored figures, in the manner of Bernard Palissy, came from the English manufactory of Wedgwood.
A dinner-party upset the servants; it necessitated the resurrection of the best dinner-service from the china cupboard, and the best silver from the safe; it entailed late hours, a sense of responsibility, the exertion of entertaining.
When I had finished, the girl give me the child, and then removed the dinner-service into an outer room. "You don't eat with your helps," said my visitor. "Is not that something like pride?" "It is custom," said I; "we were not used to do so at home, and I think that keeping a separate table is more comfortable for both parties." "Are you not both of the same flesh and blood?
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