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But after her rudeness, Mrs. Howett packed her off right away. She left the very next day after poor Sir Charles died." "Where has she gone?" "To a married sister, I believe, until she finds a new job. Mrs. Howett has the address." At this moment Mrs. Howett entered, bearing a tablecloth and a number of serviettes.
"This was the cloth," she said, spreading it out, "but which of the serviettes were used I cannot say." "Allow me to look," replied Paul Harley. One by one he began to inspect the serviettes, opening each in turn and examining it critically. "What have we here!" he exclaimed, presently. "Have blackberries been served within the week, Mrs. Howett?" "We never had them on the table, Mr. Harley.
This is a series of open shelves, on which are placed the extra napkins or serviettes to be used; for in England the first heavy napkin is taken away, and a more delicate one brought with the Roman punch, with the game another, and with the ices still another. On this dinner-wagon are placed all the dessert- plates and the finger-glasses.
However, as one of our great dinner-givers in New York has ordered twenty-four dozen of the handsome, drawn-thread napkins from one establishment at Berlin, we must conclude that they will become the fashion. When breakfast is made a formal meal that is, when company is invited to come at a stated hour serviettes, or large dinner- napkins, must be placed at each plate, as for a dinner.
She loved the flatware it always made her think of a wedding sometimes of her own. She adored the white-capped King Alfred baking his cakes in the window, but merely as a fixture, as she adored the mute stacks of clean plates and the piles of pathetic little serviettes.
How could one play Delilah to so shorn a Samson? "Herr Hoffmann from Berlin arrived yesterday," said the Herr Rat. "That young man I refuse to converse with. He told me last year that he had stayed in France in an hotel where they did not have serviettes; what a place it must have been! In Austria even the cabmen have serviettes.
All that blurred together in a mazy idea that it was sure to be cosy. Then I came downstairs, saw all these little tables with their vases of flowers, the spotless serviettes sticking up like white horns out of the wine-glasses, saw the beaming face of Berthe over there; was greeted with, 'Bon soir, Monsieur; and so I dined. That's a year and a half ago.
They all ate together in the little cabin, as was their habit, a meal prepared by Amalia, and carefully set out with all the dishes the cabin afforded: so few that there were not enough to serve all at once, but eked out by wooden blocks, and small lace serviettes taken from Amalia's store of linen.
Several disordered tables showed that people had already lunched, and left; but in the corner was a table for two, freshly laid in the best manner of such restaurants; that is to say, with a red-and-white checked cloth, and two other red-and-white cloths, almost as large as the table-cloth, folded as serviettes and arranged flat on two thick plates between solid steel cutlery; a salt-cellar, out of which one ground rock-salt by turning a handle, a pepper-castor, two knife-rests, and two common tumblers.
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