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"Heugh!" said Dick in disgust; "I thought it might a' been soldiers." "I don't want soldiers," replied Emmeline, in a voice of perfect contentment. She unfolded a piece of tissue paper, and took from it a sugar-tongs and six spoons. Then she arrayed the whole lot on the sand. "Well, if that don't beat all!" said Paddy. "And whin are you goin' to ax me to tay with you?"
While he was thus engaged one of the detectives of the town happened to pass, apparently in some haste. "Hallo! shipmate," shouted the captain. "Well?" responded the detective. "Did ye ever see silver forks an' sugar-tongs growin' in a garden before?" "Eh?" exclaimed the other, entering the garden hastily; "let me see. Oho! this may throw some light on the matter. Did you find them here?"
Bumble had re-counted the teaspoons, re-weighed the sugar-tongs, made a closer inspection of the milk-pot, and ascertained to a nicety the exact condition of the furniture, down to the very horse-hair seats of the chairs; and had repeated each process full half a dozen times; before he began to think that it was time for Mrs. Corney to return.
It is the duty of those at the head and foot of the table to offer it. To blow soup to cool it, or to pour tea or coffee into a saucer for the same purpose, are acts of awkwardness never seen in polite society. Wait until they are cool enough to be pleasant. Use the salt-spoon, butter-knife, and sugar-tongs even when you are alone. If you want to cough, sneeze, or blow your nose, leave the table.
"I shall want the car round in a couple of hours at six," he said, and smiled straight into Sara's startled eyes. Sara paused with the sugar-tongs poised above the Queen Anne bowl. "Sugar?" she queried. Trent regarded her seriously. "One lump, please." She handed him his cup and poured out another for herself. Then she said lightly: "I heard you order your car.
Another odd indication of Johnson's regard for good manners, so far as his lights would take him, was the extreme disgust with which he often referred to a certain footman in Paris, who used his fingers in place of sugar-tongs. So far as Johnson could recognize bad manners he was polite enough, though unluckily the limitation is one of considerable importance.
Considering this a favourable moment for the display of the valuables, Captain Cuttle advanced to the table; and clearing a space among the breakfast-cups at Mr Dombey's elbow, produced the silver watch, the ready money, the teaspoons, and the sugar-tongs; and piling them up into a heap that they might look as precious as possible, delivered himself of these words: 'Half a loaf's better than no bread, and the same remark holds good with crumbs.
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