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Everywhere here in Cambridge, and the same in Oxford, I believe, they say grace and give thanks. A gilded ewer and flat basin were passed, with water in the basin to wash with, and we all took our turn at the bath! Next to this came the course with the finger-bowls!... Why two baths?"
"Besides, there's no reason why I can't keep my evening's engagements." "And after dinner," went on his mother, as though she had not heard, "we'll get acquainted, Kid." It was a cheerless, rather tragic meal, though Emma McChesney saw it through from soup to finger-bowls. When it was over she led the way down the old-fashioned, red-carpeted corridors to her room.
McCaskey below one eye. When she replied with a well-aimed coffee-pot full of a hot, black, semi-fragrant liquid the battle, according to courses, should have ended. But Mr. McCaskey was no 50-cent table d'hoter. Let cheap Bohemians consider coffee the end, if they would. Let them make that faux pas. He was foxier still. Finger-bowls were not beyond the compass of his experience.
My sister and I threw ourselves into the kitchen, and took up the labor of cooking with zeal and determination; the domestic boundaries proved too narrow for our new-found energies, and we overflowed into the province of entertainment, with decorated menus, silver plate and finger-bowls! The aristocracy of Apia was pressed to lunch with us, to commend our independence and to eat our biscuits.
My lower deck isn't noisome, and I saw to the finger-bowls myself. 'My people talk like that sometimes in Little Russia, said Dragomiroff. 'We reason with them. We never kill. No! 'But it's not true, Arnott insisted. 'What can you do with people who don't tell facts? They're mad! 'Hsh! said Pirolo, his hand to his ear. 'It is such a little time since all the Planet told lies.
It really was a shame to spoil it. All these were then swept off in a very noiseless manner. Grouse and pheasants are always served with the sweets in England, and they appeared at either end of the table. There were napkins under the finger-bowls, upon each of which a castle or palace was traced in indelible ink, and its name written beneath.
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.
About this time a firm of merchants having dealings with the East put on the market little paper flowers which opened on touching water. As it was the custom also to use finger-bowls at the end of dinner, the new discovery was found of excellent service.
Macaroni as often prepared is another dish which it is not easy to serve neatly. Always break or cut it into pieces less than two inches long, before cooking, or before it is sent to the table. In serving sweet corn on the cob, provide finger-bowls, or a small doily to use in holding the ear of corn. One ladleful of soup is sufficient for each plate.
"Well, don't go and get excited at the supper table and eat your pie with a spoon!" Chuck laughed. "Aw, hell," Charley retorted, "I guess I know how to act " "Old Heck's going to buy some finger-bowls for you to wash your hands in," Bert said scornfully, "him and Parker " "Shut up, I told you, you darned idiots," Parker snapped. "They're out on the front porch and can hear you!"
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