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His Rapture had rendered him fairly incoherent, and he was gurgling like an after-dinner Percolator; but he finally made it evident that he had been Hooked. A deep Silence ensued, most of those present looking out the Window at the passing Traffic.
Put the powder into a coffee biggin, press it down closely, and pour over a little water sufficient to moisten it, and then add the remainder by degrees; the water must be perfectly boiling all the time; let it run quite through before the top of the percolator is taken off, it must be served with an equal quantity of boiling milk.
Breakfast was brought to him in his room, as usual; but he did not make his normal healthy raid upon the dainty tray: the food remained untouched, and he sustained himself upon coffee four cups of it, which left nothing of value inside the glistening little percolator.
"I've done all I could!" he responded wearily, "I see you won't come to your senses wait a minute!" and he turned on his heel. He had asked me to wait with such solemnity that I stuck still in my tracks, waiting. He disappeared into the big house, to re-emerge with, of all things, the coffee percolator!
Pike had lifted up Larry and toppled him back with a mere slap from the ends of his fingers, I saw in Mr. Pike's eyes a warning, almost threatening, expression. Nevertheless, I completed my description of the episode. When I had quite finished there was a silence. Miss West was busy serving coffee from a copper percolator. Mr.
It was of no account; if he had lacked ultimately the courage, the stamina, to face and command life, he was serene at the threat of death. Suddenly hungry, he went into the dining-room and removed the napkins, turned the electricity into the percolator.
First curtains went up on the stateroom windows, and if you looked inside, you saw new coverlets of down, and white sheets. A coffee percolator began to shine like polished gold on the counter. The shelter outside the door grew longer and longer, with more tables and better ones.
In the morning, as he had foreseen, the percolator was connected, cream and sugar placed beside it; and before his shaving was over, he had a cup of coffee with a cigarette casting up its fragrant smoke from the saucer.
In his room, however, re-establishing his sense of comfort, he found, on a low table by the bed, a choice of whiskies, charged water, cigarettes, nectarines, orange-brown mangoes, and black Belgian grapes, Attached to an electric plug was a small coffee percolator; for the morning, Lee gathered. His pajamas, his dressing gown and slippers, were conveniently laid at his hand.
He kissed her in his honest, boyish fashion, and she took the ring and wore it; and they went to the play in a rosy haze of happiness, and when they came home he kissed her again. "The sooner you get out of that office the better," he said. "We'll get a little flat, and I've saved enough to furnish it." Nannie was lighting the lamp under the percolator. Mrs.
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