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She was still graceful, still fluent, still endowed with that baffling little air of distinction; but she knew where things were down to the last strainer or nutmeg-grater and she knew how to use them. She was completely at home. And so by this time was he. To deepen the impression, Medora asked Abner to help her lay the table.
I laid down my rattle; over the side of the cradle I dropped my uncle's silver watch, the clothes-brush, the toy dog, my tin soldier, the nutmeg-grater, and other matters which I was accustomed to examine, and meditate upon and make pleasant noises with, and bang and batter and break when I needed wholesome entertainment.
How many people in all, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and one or two intimate friends of the family, dine together to-day at the eldest son’s to congratulate the old couple, and wish them many happy returns, is a calculation beyond our powers; but this we know, that the old couple no sooner present themselves, very sprucely and carefully attired, than there is a violent shouting and rushing forward of the younger branches with all manner of presents, such as pocket-books, pencil-cases, pen-wipers, watch-papers, pin-cushions, sleeve-buckles, worked-slippers, watch-guards, and even a nutmeg-grater: the latter article being presented by a very chubby and very little boy, who exhibits it in great triumph as an extraordinary variety.
'A kind of a busting noise, replied Mr. Giles, looking round him. 'More like the noise of powdering a iron bar on a nutmeg-grater, suggested Brittles. 'It was, when you heerd it, sir, rejoined Mr. Giles; 'but, at this time, it had a busting sound. I turned down the clothes'; continued Giles, rolling back the table-cloth, 'sat up in bed; and listened.
'It says, replied Clemency, reading slowly round as if it were a tower, 'For-get and For-give. Snitchey and Craggs laughed heartily. 'So new! said Snitchey. 'So easy! said Craggs. 'Such a knowledge of human nature in it! said Snitchey. 'So applicable to the affairs of life! said Craggs. 'And the nutmeg-grater? inquired the head of the Firm.
But the next day I was not to be inveigled below stairs by any plaintive prayer for a nutmeg-grater or a soda spoon. She shopped that day, and to some purpose. We accomplished lots." Aunt Hannah looked a little concerned. "But she must have some things started!" "Oh, she has 'most everything now. I've seen to that. Of course her outfit is very simple, anyway.
Then he sat down on the divan, and all the old women of both houses sprinkled the couple with yellow rice, and rubbed their foreheads with some charm, which looked like a bit of stone and a nutmeg-grater, and wished them all kinds of luck but especially that they might be the parents of sons only.
One day he had made a collection of articles only used in a less primitive housekeeping, from nutmeg-grater to fluting-iron, and tossed them out of the window into a corner of the yard.
The air stung his hands as if they had been scraped by a nutmeg-grater. Twenty minutes passed slowly. Despair seized hold of him. He was so far from anyone who cared about him, so lost in the vast machine. He was telling himself that he'd never get on, would never get up where he could show what he was good for. He felt as if he were in a treadmill.
Stanley laughed at Lord Althorp's arrow-root, and recommended his own supper, cold meat and warm negus; a supper which I will certainly begin to take when I feel a desire to pass the night with a sensation as if I was swallowing a nutmeg-grater every third minute. We talked about timidity in speaking. Lord Althorp said that he had only just got over his apprehensions.
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