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Henry Greech's witticisms at the expense of the Front Opposition bench were destined to remain as unfinished as his wife's history of the broken soup-plates.
"Yes, that's the den of the Doleful Dumps their diggings!" laughed a younger scout, flourishing aloft a mess-mug, the gray of his rolling eyes. "Bats bats as big as saucers no, soup-plates! And, far in far in the sound of running water, like a weak wind!" "Running water! Invisible running water! A weak wind! Oh-h! do let us hurry and go on there. We have to cross the river; haven't we?"
"No, my Lord," said the steward, pursuing his narrative, seeing the bell had failed; "three decanters, four couples of soup-plates, and " "Hang the plates!" interrupted R ; "how is Jacko?" "Not so hearty, my Lord," replied the steward. "Why, what's the matter with him, eh?" asked R , going to the sofa, and lying down.
Cameron at once decided that the members should hear my report, and I was notified to be ready to relate my experiences in full. We met, as before, at Cameron's table, and even before the soup-plates were removed the interrogation began, and by the time the company was in full possession of the facts the coffee and cigars had appeared.
Greech had to suppress the interesting sequel to her broken-crockery narrative, to wit, how she subsequently matched the shattered soup-plates at Harrod's.
He was tall and lanky. His arms were long, like prehistoric man's, and his hands were like soup-plates, twisted and gnarled, and big-knuckled from toil. He was slow of utterance and movement, and his eyes, pale blue as his hair was pale yellow, seemed filled with an immortal dreaming, the stuff of which no man knew, and himself least of all.
Broken bread and scraps of frozen macaroni lay upon the cloth and at the bottom of two soup-plates and a tureen; the macaroni had a tinge of tomato; and there was a crimson dram left in the tumblers, with an empty fiasco to show whence it came.
In the damp dining-room with the paper peeling from the walls near the floor, he saw a soup tureen on a round table without any table cloth, on which were also three melancholy soup-plates. M. and Mme. Padoie entered the room at the same time as Varajou.
Hardly less red than the sun's, are our burnt faces gathered about the fire. This fire has no flame only a glowing, ruddy heart, on which the bright brass saucepan sits; and kneeling before it, stirring the mess with a long iron spoon, is Barbara. Algy, as I have before remarked, is grating a lemon. Bobby is buttering soup-plates.
But just as the soup-plates were being removed from the dinner-table he arrived in a hired vehicle, and appeared at the dining-room door with his hat in one hand, and a package in the other. He begged Mrs. Easterfield not to rise. "I will slip up to my room," said he, "if you have one for me, and when I come down I will greet you and be introduced."
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