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Within the dining-room, at the round table, before the few pieces of tall, beaded silver and the gilt-banded china, while Mehalah the waitress brought the cakes from the kitchen and the fire burned softly on the hearth below the Saint Memin of a general and law-giver, talk fell at once upon the event of the day, the meeting that had passed the Botetourt Resolutions.
She removed the napkin, and displayed a tempting luncheon, served in pretty, gilt-banded white china. What a contrast it presented, to the steaming tin platter and dull tin quart cups carried daily to the adjoining cell? Beryl laid her hand on Mrs. Singleton's shoulder, and her mouth trembled.
And this brings me back to that other evening just twenty-four hours later; I in the bank, with the accusing account books spread out under the electric light on the high desk, and old John Runnels, looking never a whit less the good-natured, easy-going town marshal in his brass-buttoned uniform and gilt-banded cap, stumbling over the threshold as he let himself in at the side door which had been left on the latch.
Be more careful, for Lorraine's sake." "But I will but did the note reach her?" His aunt smiled. "Yes. I took the responsibility upon myself, and there will be no gossip." Jack leaned over and kissed the amused mouth, and the old lady gave him a little hug and told him to go and walk on the terrace. The groom was already there, holding a note in one hand, gilt-banded cap in the other.
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