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"Yes, child, in four rooms; this, the parlors, and the library. Always cut the flowers very early, while the dew is on them." Her eyes went back to the sugar-tongs, and Edna joyfully escaped from a room whose restraints and associations were irksome. Impressed by Hagar's vehement adjuration to keep out of Mr.
She spoke of the former Otto and of the present one he was become so Copenhagenish, so refined and nice, as well in the cut of his clothes as in his manners; yet she still found an opportunity of giving him a little hint to further refinement. Only think! he took the sugar for his coffee with his fingers! "But where are the sugar-tongs, the massive silver sugar-tongs?" asked she.
All the silver was assembled on one of the long tables in an inner room, where, as at a solemn conclave, the servants took their seats, and, presided over by the major-domo of the establishment, they polished the knives and forks, spoons, and sugar-tongs, filled the salt-cellars, replenished the pepper-boxes and other paraphernalia of the dining art.
She held a lump of sugar poised above his cup with the sugar-tongs. Her astonishment was so great that she kept it there. The walls of the city which just now had seemed to be rising magically faded away again, leaving the same unbounded vacancy into which she had been looking out all day. "What do you mean by practically to give you?" "The man said lend.
"Whisky is the curse of this country," said Mrs. Carroll, vehemently, while Bob gazed into the fire and Sydney played with the sugar-tongs. "You can't deny lying, Bob, when the moonshiners are lying to the revenue men every day, and their friends are lying in their behalf; and you can't say they don't steal, when they are defrauding the government with every quart of blockade they sell.
Any gentleman propounding a conundrum at the dinner-table deserves to be taken away by the police. To use one's own knife, spoon or fingers, instead of the butterknife, sugar-tongs or salt-spoons, is to persuade the company that you have never seen the latter articles before, and are unacquainted with their use.
One lump, or two?" and Jim Airth's reply: "As usual, thanks, dear," not knowing, that with a silent twinkle of fun, he laid an envelope over his cup, as a sign to Myra, waiting with poised sugar-tongs, that "as usual" meant no sugar at all! Later on, when she one day met Lady Ingleby alone in a passage, Miss Susannah ventured two hurried questions. "Oh, tell me, my dear!
Again her laugh bubbled out a catching, spontaneous kind of laugh, as if there were plenty more packed away behind her lips ready to break loose whenever they found an opening. "Then, Major, you shall have two lumps to sweeten you up," and down went the sugar-tongs into the silver bowl. Here young Breen leaned forward and lifted the bowl nearer to her hand, while I waited for my cup.
"So you are the young woman!" ejaculated Lady Caroline. "Am I?" said Ruth quietly, and after a profound curtsy turned sideways to the mare. "A lump of sugar, Tatty, if you please. . . . I thank you, ma'am " as Mrs. Harry, anticipating Miss Quiney, stepped forward with a piece held between the sugar-tongs. "And I think she even deserves a second, for clearing the yard gate."
The fact is, we were all looking at it with some curiosity, for it had been brought down with the tea-spoons and sugar-tongs, and now stood on the table filled with pounded sugar for the strawberries that were to be eaten by and by. "Is it an heirloom, Miss Grantley?" asked Marian Cooper. "Has it always belonged to you, and did some ancestor leave you the history of it?"
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