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Collins darted away to despatch the message, and returning presently with the pale ale, uncorked it dexterously, and stood at the side-board, serenely indifferent. "And what kind of person was this this Mademoiselle de Sainte Aulaire, Collins?" I asked, leisurely bisecting a partridge. "Can't say, sir, indeed. Lady kept her veil down." "Humph! Tall or short, Collins?" "Rather tall, sir." "Young?"
I dreamt that I was with the Pope, who was the finest gentleman in the whole district; and after we had conversed a while, his Holiness axed me, Would I drink? Thinks I to myself, 'Would a duck swim? So, seeing the whisky and the lemons and the sugar on the side-board, I said, I didn't mind if I took a drop of punch. 'Cold or hot? says his Holiness.
Over at the side-board the waiter still polished his bottle. Livingstone did not even turn his head. Finally Harding raised his glass. "We'll drink to honeymoon trips in general and to this one in particular," he cried, a little constrainedly. Mrs. Warden flushed, smiled, and reached for her glass. The pink lemonade was almost at her lips when Livingstone's arm shot out.
‘My name is Trott,’ replied number nineteen, breaking the seal. ‘You may go, waiter.’ The waiter pulled down the window-blind, and then pulled it up again—for a regular waiter must do something before he leaves the room—adjusted the glasses on the side-board, brushed a place that was not dusty, rubbed his hands very hard, walked stealthily to the door, and evaporated.
He placed his friend Joseph over all his men-servants, and ordered him to forbear his attendance; but the old man would always stand at the side-board, and feast his eyes with the countenance of his own master's son, surrounded with honour and happiness. John Wyatt waited upon the person of his lord, and enjoyed his favour without abatement. Mr.
From the toes of the dragon on which it rested, to the beak of the hand-carved eagle, spreading his wings over the shield beneath him, carved in the solid mahogany and surrounded by thirteen stars, all was elegance and aristocracy. Even the bold staring eyes of the eagle seemed proud of the age of the side-board, for had it not been built when the stars numbered but thirteen?
"Says I, to the lady of the house, as I got up to help myself, for I was hungry enough to make beef ache I know. 'Aunty, sais I, 'you'll excuse me, but why don't you put the eatables on the table, or else put the tea on the side-board? They're like man and wife, they don't ought to be separated, them two.
"Go easy there, Job!" hissed Adam, edging a little nearer to him, "go easy, now, Nineteen!" "Come, come Gentlemen!" remonstrated the Auctioneer, "this isn't a coal-scuttle, nor a broom, nor yet a pair of tongs, this is a magnificent mahogany side-board, and you offer me nineteen pound!" "Twenty!" said Job.
If in England, the exchange is nearly as grateful for though our travelling be better, and our equipage less "genante," still it is no small alterative from the stage-coach to the inn parlour, redolent of aromatic black tea, eggs, and hot toast, with a hospitable side-board of red, raw surloins, and York hams, that would made a Jew's mouth water.
"By this time breakfast is ready; but the English don't do nothin' like other folks; I don't know whether it's affectation, or bein' wrong in the head a little of both I guess. Now where do you suppose the solid part of breakfast is, Squire? Why, it's on the side-board I hope I may be shot if it ain't well, the tea and coffee are on the table, to make it as onconvenient as possible.
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