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Updated: May 11, 2025
I don't know if you understand how much you are to me I've never spoken of it, I didn't think it necessary; but but you're everything. Your mother " he paused, staring at his finger-bowl of Venetian glass. "Yes?" "I've only you to look to. I've never had never wanted anything else, since you were born." "I know," Fleur murmured. Soames moistened his lips.
We've never had finger-bowls before, and we've had everybody as was anybody to travel with us." Jim's reply was final. "Say," he replied, "we got to have 'em. Soon's I set my eyes on that lady I said: 'She's a finger-bowl lady." "'Finger-bowl lady' be hanged, Jim, we don't " Ingolby protested, but Jim waved him down.
It is all as paltry a collection of whitewashed houses, pitiful gardens, dead walls, and trodden waste spaces as one would wish to find anywhere; and every bit of it quivers with the remembered life of armies and river-fleets, as the finger-bowl rings when the rubbing finger is lifted.
You laid the table with every blessed silver thing you had, till it looked like a wedding-present show, as indeed it was. You lighted four candles and put rose shades over them, almost like those at the hotel palace. You ranged the dessert on the sideboard, for you must have dessert, to use those tiptop finger-bowls. In each finger-bowl you floated a flower to match the table decorations.
I don't know if you understand how much you are to me I've never spoken of it, I didn't think it necessary; but but you're everything. Your mother " he paused, staring at his finger-bowl of Venetian glass. "Yes?" "I've only you to look to. I've never had never wanted anything else, since you were born." "I know," Fleur murmured. Soames moistened his lips.
"Shall I telephone for ?" Thomas brought a finger-bowl. Gwendolyn stood up. A ride meant the limousine, with its screening top and little windows. The limousine meant a long, tiresome run at good speed through streets that she longed to travel afoot, slowly, with a stop here and a stop there, and a poke into things in general. Her crimson cheeks spoke rebellion.
"Say," he said decisively, "she'll ask for them finger-bowls she'll ask for 'em, and what'd I do if we hadn't got 'em." She did ask for them; and henceforth the West said of any woman who put on airs and wanted what she wasn't born to: "She's a finger-bowl lady." It was Jim who opened the door to Jethro Fawe, and his first glance was one of prejudice.
He stretched a fat hand toward a mahogany cigar-box, affected to choose a cigar with deliberative crackling, hacked at the selection with a fruit knife, and dropped the severed end into an unused finger-bowl; then he struck a match, and puffed furiously until a rim of white ash tipped the brown. This achieved, he helped himself to the port.
There was another little silence, full of the unwillingness of Miss Livingstone's desire to be informed. Hilda knocked the ash of her cigarette into her finger-bowl, and waited. The pause grew so stiff with embarrassment that she broke it herself. "And I regret to say it was I who introduced them," she said. "Introduced whom?" "Mr. Lindsay and Miss Laura Filbert of the Salvation Army.
Blair said, under his breath. And the finger- bowls appeared with the salad. "What's this nonsense?" Mrs. Maitland demanded; then, realizing Blair's effort, she picked up a finger-bowl and looked at it, cocking an amused eyebrow. "Well, Blair," she said, with loud good nature, "we are putting on airs!" Blair pretended not to hear.
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