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On arriving, and seeing what the tavern was like, she had been taken by surprise; but having gone too far to retreat, she had heroically entered and sat down on the well-scrubbed settle, opposite the narrow table with its knives and steel forks, tin pepper-boxes, blue salt-cellars, and posters advertising the sale of bullocks against the wall.
My father was one of the captains of the regiment, and I was generally in for any amusement that there was. Once at a picnic, I remember that I got hold of the salt-cellars and mustard-pots beforehand, and I filled up one with powdered Epsom salts, which are horribly nasty, you know, and I mixed the mustard with cayenne pepper. Nobody could make out what had happened to the food.
Perhaps you are in the secret already, and know what it is?" "No, we don't know. We inquired, but he wouldn't tell us anything about it." "But it's probably salt-cellars! Men have so little imagination. They always take refuge in salt-cellars!" This from Peggy, while Esther looked polite and murmured: "Most useful, I'm sure. Nothing more so!" and Mellicent grimaced vigorously.
Halemanu has a cook house and native cook, and an eating-room, where I was surprised to find everything in foreign style chairs, a table with a snow white cover, and table napkins, knives, forks, and even salt-cellars. I asked him to eat with us, and he used a knife and fork quite correctly, never, for instance, putting the knife into his mouth.
Caldwell in the kitchen was like a racehorse at the plough; and even if she had been a born housewife, she could have done little with servants who would do nothing themselves except under her eyes, and stole everything they could lay their hands on, including the salt out of the salt-cellars between meals, if it were not locked up.
The floors of the houses are so dreadfully clean not a piece of carpet bigger than a rug to sit upon; the porcelain stoves so inaccessible; the windows always shut; every nook and corner blazing with little ornaments; the lady of the house so severely conscious of every movement; even the little earthen pans near the stove, filled with white sand nicely smoothed over to represent salt-cellars the ostensible spittoons of the establishment staring one in the face with a cold, steady gaze amounting to a positive prohibition no, the thing was impossible!
The curve of her throat and chin, the "salt-cellars" at the base of the neck, left nothing to be desired. Altogether there was that about this girl that caught and held his boyish attention. It wasn't that she was pretty, he had at first thought her plain. It was rather that here lay a tantalizing promise of unfoldment by and by, a sheathed hint of something rare and perilous.
"You sweet thing!" cried Katy, "tissing the messender" with all her heart. "I never heard such a dear little poem. Did you write it yourself, Roslein?" "No. Mamma wote it, but she teached it to me so I tould say it." The bundles of course contained wedding gifts. Rose seemed to have brought her trunk full of them. There were a pretty pair of salt-cellars from Mrs.
But there was no cause for definite question, and Martie, straightening the salt-cellars lovingly, knew it. "Where's your sister?" her father asked discontentedly. "Upstairs, straightening her hair for dinner, I THINK." Martie was sweetly responsive. "But I can find out, Pa." "No matter. Here, take these things." Martie carried away the overcoat and hat, and hung them on the hat rack in the hall.
Four silver wine-coolers, each furnished with four staring heads, each head obtrusively carrying a big silver ring in each of its ears, conveyed the sentiment up and down the table, and handed it on to the pot-bellied silver salt-cellars.
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