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Updated: June 26, 2025
He blew a little cloud of smoke in the air, and with half-closed eyes corrected his first impression as to the tune being played round the corner. "Bill!" cried the voice of Mrs. Jobling, who was washing-up in the tiny scullery. "'Ullo!" responded Mr. Jobling, gruffly. "You've been putting your wet teaspoon in the sugar-basin, and well, I declare, if you haven't done it again."
I do not think in England poor people would buy old tea-leaves. Some very poor Chinese use fern-leaves instead of tea-leaves. The Chinese do not make tea in the same way that we do. They have no teapot, or milk-jug, or sugar-basin. They put a few tea-leaves in a cup, pour hot water on them, and then put a cover on the cup till the tea is ready.
His coat-tails that morning proved the means of annihilating the sugar-basin the last of the set which had graced the board on his arrival in the Highlands, and which had been left, for some time past, "blooming alone," all its former companions having been shattered and gone long ago.
Before, however, I could taste the tea, the wife, seeming to recollect herself, started up, and hurrying to a cupboard, produced a basin full of snow-white lump sugar, and taking the spoon out of my hand, placed two of the largest lumps in my cup, though she helped neither her husband nor herself; the sugar-basin being probably only kept for grand occasions.
Here now is Fort Cornelius, and there is the moat, the sugar-basin is the citadel, and the tongs is the first trench, the decanter will represent the tall tower towards the south-west angle, and here, the wine glass this is me.
This afternoon the same brother brought, from a sister, a counterpane, a flatiron-stand, eight cups and saucers, a sugar-basin, a milk jug, a teacup, sixteen thimbles, five knives and forks, six dessert-spoons, twelve teaspoons, four combs, and two little graters; from another friend a flatiron, and a cup and saucer. At the same time he brought the hundred pounds above referred to.
Here now is Fort Cornelius, and there is the moat, the sugar-basin is the citadel, and the tongs is the first trench, the decanter will represent the tall tower towards the south-west angle, and here, the wine glass this is me.
I believe he tried to introduce them, but people always threw them out of the window. I think they're an absurd invention." Rainham, as he watched her slender fingers with their dimpled knuckles, daintily selecting the most eligible lumps out of the cracked blue-and-white china teacup which did service for a sugar-basin, unhesitatingly agreed with her; though Mrs.
"I leave her to make up her mind before speaking to you; for I mean to show her more kindness than she deserves." Pierrette was looking out of the window to avoid her cousin's eyes, which frightened her. "Look at her! she pays no more attention to what I am saying than if I were that sugar-basin!
"Don't get two sugar-basins," said Cissie breathless in pursuit. "Hugh is trying for a sugar-basin at the other place." Then Mr. Britling heard a bellicose note. "Let's have a go at the bottles," said a cheerful young farmer. "Ought to keep up our shooting, these warlike times...." Mr.
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