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Young Isham entered with the candles, and Mammy Chloe brought her upon a salver a cup of coffee and a roll. She ate and drank, then sent her old nurse away. The candles, under their tall glass shades, were upon the centre table, and beside them lay the letters she was to read. Her husband's own letter was slipped beneath the ribbon that confined her dress, and lay against her heart.
He presented his salver with a card upon it. Severne clutched the card, and jumped up, reddening. "Show him in here," said the hospitable Vizard. "No, no," cried Severne, rather nervously; "it is my lawyer on a little private business." Vizard told the servant to show the visitor into the library, and take in the Madeira and some biscuits.
The waiter, looking very sleepy, and with a green shade on his brow, appeared with the decanter and glasses on a salver, and was told to leave it and depart. Seeing that Harry was not to be moved, I once more threw myself on the lounge.
She was scrupulous as to the serving of meals, for instance, almost to a fault; no carelessness, no slight neglect, was admitted here, and always on the spotless damask laid with quaint china stood a tapered vase of white Venice glass, with one, or two, or three blossoms, sometimes a cluster of leaves, the spray of a wild vine, or the tasselled branch of a larch-tree jewelled with rose-red cones, arranged therein with an artist's taste and skill: but perhaps, while she sharply rebuked the maid for a dim spot on her chocolate-pitcher or a grain of sugar spilt on the salver, her white India shawl lay trailed over the divan half upon the floor, and her gloves fluttered on the doorstep till the wind carried them off to find her parasol hanging in the honeysuckle boughs.
"No, sir; I think he wants you to go out." "It is too late," cried Douglas Stone peevishly. "I won't go." "This is his card, sir." The butler presented it upon the gold salver which had been given to his master by the wife of a Prime Minister. "'Hamil Ali, Smyrna. Hum! The fellow is a Turk, I suppose." "Yes, sir. He seems as if he came from abroad, sir. And he's in a terrible way." "Tut, tut!
I don't see them anywhere." I glanced round the room. Just at that moment a waiter from the restaurant presented himself. He brought me a card upon a salver. "The gentleman asked me to give you this, sir," he announced. I picked it up.
Just as lunch was over the next day the front door bell tingled, and presently the parlour-maid knocked, and came in with a card on a silver salver: "I have shown the gentleman into the drawing-room, sir. He says that he has an appointment with you for half-past two." "Very well: I will be up in a moment, Annie."
Smith receives from his parishioners the gift of a silver salver: the county paper of the following Friday contains a lengthy paragraph recording the fact, and giving the reverend gentleman's feeling and appropriate reply.
"I took the glass from my own pantry." "Are you sure that there was nothing in the glass when you took the salver to you master?" "Quite sure, sir. I'm very particular about having all my glass bright and clear it's the under butler's duty to see to that, and it's my duty to keep him up to his work. I should have seen in a moment if the glass had been dull and smudgy at the bottom."
The coins are plain, circular, and smooth; there is no attempt to mark device upon them. The inscription above is, "LARGITAS ME ONORAT." In the copy of this design on the twenty-fifth capital, instead of showering out the gold from his open hand, the figure holds it in a plate or salver, introduced for the sake of disguising the direct imitation.
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