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Sir Asher did not even let them off with the shorter form of grace invented by a wise Rabbi for these difficult occasions, yet so far as was visible it was only the Jewish guests comically distinguished by serviettes shamefacedly dabbed on their heads who fidgeted under the pious torrent.
Then they were in the tram, going towards the heart of Brussels. How commonplace! Fat frowsy market women got in or got out with their baskets; clerks entered with portfolios don't they call them "serviettes"? under their arms; German policemen, Belgian gendarmes, German soldiers, a priest with his breviary came and went as though this Monday morning were like any other.
"The table is now as I left it, sir, a few minutes before your arrival. Just after your arrival I found Jones, the parlourmaid a most incompetent, impudent girl altering the position of the serviettes. At least, such was my impression." "Of the serviettes?" murmured Harley. "She denied it," continued the housekeeper, speaking with great animation; "but she could give no explanation.
The table was laid with the best china, the red satin tea-cosy had been brought from its hiding-place upstairs and divested of its muslin bag and holland wrappings; the centre mat presented by Cousin Mary Ferguson two Christmases ago was displayed for the first time; the serviettes were folded into rakish imitations of cocked hats.
Every chair and stool on the run was mustered; two tables were placed end to end beneath that clustering, mistletoe and covered with clean white tablecloths remembering the story of the rags and hobble rings we refrained from serviettes the hop-beer was set in canvas water bags to keep it cool; and Cheon pointing out that the approach from the kitchens was not all that could be desired, an enormous tent-fly was stretched away from the roof of the verandah, extending it half-way to the kitchen, and further greenery was used, decorating it within and without to make it a fitting passage-way for the transport of Cheon's triumphs.
"He asked me to get one of the serviettes, with the ring, and to lend it to him." "You did this?" "Yes. But he brought it back." "When?" "The afternoon " "Before Sir Charles's death? Yes. Go on. What did he tell you to do with this serviette?" "It was in a box. He said I was not to open the box until I put the serviette on the table, and that it had to be put by Sir Charles's plate.
The furniture must have come originally from the refectory of some abbey, for there was a monastic look about the lengthy tables, where the serviettes of regular customers, each thrust through a numbered ring of crystallized tin plate, were laid by their places.
She was a rough, good-tempered girl, devoted to Minx, the cat, and really kind if anybody had a headache or toothache, but quite without any sense of discrimination: she would show a traveling hawker into the drawing-room, and leave the clergyman standing on the doorstep, took the best serviettes to wipe the china, scoured the silver with Monkey Brand Soap, and systematically bespattered the kitchen tablecloth with ink.
"Another 'phone call came for Sir Charles. I knew who it was, because I had told Sidney about the case Sir Charles was attending in the square. When Sir Charles went out I changed the serviettes. Mrs. Howett found me in the dining room and played hell. But afterward I managed to burn the box in the kitchen. That's all I know. What harm was there?" "Harm enough!" said Harley, grimly.
To our surprise, in a few seconds it sounded as though there was something in it, and an instant later he drew forth from it a neatly folded snow-white tablecloth, the serviettes, spoons, forks, and in fact all the articles which he had named.
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