forfeit-box

Updated: June 23, 2025

The mahogany of the Junta was laid bare a clear dark lake, anon to reflect in its still and ruddy depths the candelabras and the fruit-cradles, the slender glasses and the stout old decanters, the forfeit-box and the snuff-box, and other paraphernalia of the dignity of dessert.

Sir Max Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story