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Updated: May 16, 2025
So instead of letting her niece see how generous her sympathy was, she said, in rather a strident voice, the result of her suppressed feeling: "There is a good cup of coffee waiting for you in the small brown pot, and you'll find some egg-sandwiches on a plate on the high shelf above the tumbler-cupboard. Go and eat them at once, before a fresh lot of men come in."
We sat like sparrows on a railing, and munched our egg-sandwiches and drank our wine in a sort of glorious stupefaction. For right opposite us was the vast glacier-fall, whose crashing foam was towers and parapets of ice, that went over and rolled into the valley below, a ruin of thunder.
No one said anything, so preparations were begun. A minute piece of shade was found for Mrs. A tablecloth was laid on the sand and the provisions spread out pasties for everybody, egg-sandwiches, seed-cake, and jam-puffs and ginger beer. It looked a fine feast when it was all there, and Mrs.
In the early weeks of the doctor's tenancy, which began only last September, he had walked three times a day to the Always Open Lunch Room, known among the baser sort as the Suicide Club, and had then become possibly the most discriminating judge of egg-sandwiches in all the city.
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