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Updated: June 12, 2025
Afterward they rode into deep woods, where the sunlight came down through the trees like splashes of gold; and here the engineer suggested they should have a picnic. As Margaret MacLean stepped out into the hall to look up the dinner-trays she met the House Surgeon. "Dreading it as much as usual?" he asked, in the teasing, big-brother tone; but he looked at her in quite another way. She laughed.
Judging from the number of servitors whom we had met hurrying towards the cells with sets of porcelain dinner-trays, not many monks intended to join the common table, and it did not chance to be one of the four days in the year when the Metropolitan of Kieff and other dignitaries dine there in full vestments.
"Which is ours?" "The one who dashes about?" "The one who upset the dinner-trays?" "Yes. Wasn't it funny? I thought I should have died!" The Doctors, this time civilians, used to come to him twice a day. They were quiet, reserved men, positively glowing with efficiency.
Upon knocking, we were admitted by an Egyptian servant, who showed us up stairs into a room, where we found the master of the house seated upon one of the low stools which serve as the support of the dinner-trays in Egypt, the only other furniture that the room contained being a table, and the customary divan, which extended all round.
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