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Then I wiped my tail in the sheets, in the coverlet, in the curtains, with a cushion, with arras hangings, with a green carpet, with a table-cloth, with a napkin, with a handkerchief, with a combing-cloth; in all which I found more pleasure than do the mangy dogs when you rub them. Yea, but, said Grangousier, which torchecul did you find to be the best?
"Helton," he said one night, "I wish things could talk these old chairs and the table and that big worn-out couch, for instance." "Lucky thing they can't, sir," mumbled Helton, holding the seam of the table-cloth in his teeth while he folded it. "Why?" said Lewis. "Why should it be lucky they can't?
There was something vaguely embarrassing in Evelina's suggestion. "I always think if we ask for more what we have may be taken from us," she ventured. "Well, whoever took it wouldn't get much," Evelina retorted with a laugh as she swept up the table-cloth. A few moments later the back room was in its usual flawless order and the two sisters had seated themselves near the lamp.
"My poor lad, you must not come any farther with us. I had no idea you were so much fatigued. Remain here by the provisions, and rest in the sunshine till we return." So Mr Sudberry gave Peter a plaid that had been carried up to serve as a table-cloth, and told him to wrap well up in it, lest he should catch cold.
You will do very right in saying this; and it is a remark to which I shall give all the hospitality of my mind, and I do so because I heartily coincide in it. I hold a man to be very foolish who will not eat a good dinner because the table-cloth is not clean, or who cavils at the spots upon the sun.
'An' to have to be fryin' mate ondher his very nose, an' the kitchen in the castle is a good quarther of a mile from the dinin' parlour, anyhow; an' all our chaney is made of wood, barrin' the couple of plates; an' our glasses is nothin' but cows' horns. An' sorra a bit of a table-cloth, unless I spread one of the sheets. An' to sit on shtools for want of chairs.
"Well, I guess you 'ain't." They went on swallowing their food silently; the great clock ticked slowly, and the spring birds called outside; but they heard neither. The shadows of the young elm leaves played over the floor and the white table-cloth. It was much warmer that morning, and the shadows were softer.
Up he came as cool as you please, with his hands in his pockets. 'Didn't I tell you to shake my table-cloth every morning? roared I. 'Yes, says he. 'Did you do it this morning? 'Yes. 'You young liar!
Everything was as he had pictured it the two tall wax candles in quaint heavy silver candlesticks, the spotless table-cloth, the dish of fried fish made picturesque with sprigs of parsley, the Sabbath loaves shaped like boys' tip-cats, with a curious plait of crust from point to point and thickly sprinkled with a drift of poppy-seed, and covered with a velvet cloth embroidered with Hebrew words; the flask of wine and the silver goblet.
While the baron and the actress were exchanging civilities the pedant's chair, unable to support his weight any longer, suddenly gave way under him, and he fell to the floor with a tremendous crash, which startled the whole company. In his fall he had mechanically seized hold of the table-cloth, and so brought nearly all the things upon it clattering down with him.
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