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Wake up, now, and play with it." Sometimes, when the table was laid over night, we used to hear her anguished groans in the stillness of the night. In the morning every napkin belonging to the family would be found in a different part of the house, and perhaps a ring would be missing.
It was barely two hours after night set in when we were all on board the vessel, where the cords were removed from the hands of Zoraida's father, and the napkin from his mouth; but the renegade once more told him not to utter a word, or they would take his life.
So she called him aside before they started: "Now, Nickey, remember to act like a gentleman, especially at the table; you must try to do credit to your bringin' up." "Yes, I'll do my level best if it kills me," the boy replied. "Well, what do you do with your napkin when you first sit down to the table?" "Tie it 'round my neck, of course!"
"Ya," said the man-mountain with the napkin. "Well, then, open the door, pray I'm going to stop here." "Nein." "No! What do you mean by that? Has not Lord Callonby engaged rooms here?" "Ya." "Well, then, I am a particular friend of his, and will stay here also." "Nein."
There is no absolute law on this subject. At a fashionable dinner no one folds his napkin. He lets it drop to the floor, or lays it by the side of his plate unfolded.
The menu of soup, fish, game, birds, salads, was very quickly served, a waiter for each guest. The table was furnished with much silver and cut glass, and at each plate was a bouquet holder with napkin ring attached; there were after-dinner speeches by Governor Taft, Judge Wright, and others; then we were ushered into the large drawing-room where coffee and cigars were served.
They now dwelt in the effulgence of the king's countenance. They saw him to bed at night and in stately procession they greeted him in the morning. It was deemed a high honor to hand him his shirt as he was being dressed, or, at dinner, to provide him with a fresh napkin.
Only the people in their immediate neighbourhood saw what had happened; but these sprang up; a girl gave a nervous cry; and in a minute, the further occupants of the room had gathered round them, the billiard-players with their cues in their hands. Two waiters, napkin on arm, hastened up, and the proprietor came out from an inner room, and rubbed his hands.
It's kind o' curious I should bring both remedies home with me at once." At this they all laughed a third time, till 'Manda Grier said, "'Sh! 'sh! Do you want to raise the roof?" She began to bustle about, and to set out a little table, and cover it with a napkin, and as she worked she talked on.
"Fret not thyself, Kate, 't is but a pain in my head ah 't is shrewd enough, but it will pass there, there, good wife, fret not thyself!" "John Howland, wilt thou find Surgeon Fuller, and mayhap Dame Brewster, but no more. I will wring a napkin out of fair water and lay to his head, for it burneth like fire."
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