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His yellow, wise old eyes watched the quick face with the air of one who, having posed an insoluble problem, awaits with a sarcastic humour the admission of failure. General Vincente, who had just finished his wine, wiped his moustache delicately with his table-napkin. He was thinking quickly, systematically, as men learn to think under fire.
After the ceremony, all the guests returned to the palace, where there was set before each fairy-godmother a magnificent covered dish, with an embroidered table-napkin, and a knife and fork of pure gold, studded with diamonds and rubies.
It was a less surprised look than a barricaded one that came into his eyes. "Why?" he asked as he slowly seated himself across the table from me. "Because I think she needs you," I found the courage to tell him. "Why?" he asked still again. "There has been an accident," I told him. "What sort of accident?" he quickly inquired, with one hand arrested as he went to shake out his table-napkin.
Esmeralda fell at once to pleating her table-napkin into one shape after another, Mademoiselle smiled over a happy inspiration, whereupon wily Pat put on his most angelic look and asked "Will you dress me, Mademoiselle? A man's no good at this sort of thing. You can't fasten sheets with screws, and I'm no hand at fancy stitching.
After the cutlet a little cup of coffee was served. The footman who brought in the dishes wore a swallow-tail coat, noiseless boots, and gloves. "Ha ha!" Karmazinov got up from the sofa, wiping his mouth with a table-napkin, and came forward to kiss him with an air of unmixed delight after the characteristic fashion of Russians if they are very illustrious.
Eyton-Eyton turned upon Mary. "Oh, you little fool!" The rebuke that should have been taken with downcast eyes, murmured apologies, was otherwise received. "Mrs. Eyton! How dare you call me a fool!" Pause of blank amazement; sago-messed table-napkin in the scented hand; sago creeping down the silken skirt. That a nursery governess not even a servant should so presume! "Miss Humfray!
He warmed in it till, after the Ciceronic model, inanimate objects were personified, and Richard's table-napkin and vacant chair were invoked to follow the steps of a peerless father, and uphold with his dignity the honour of the Feverels. Austin Wentworth, whom a soldier's death compelled to take his father's place in support of the toast, was tame after such magniloquence.
"If they should however find this bundle!" murmured M. Daburon. He was interrupted by the entrance of a gendarme, who said: "Here is a soiled table-napkin, filled with plate, money, and jewels, which these men have found; they claim the hundred francs' reward, promised them." Old Tabaret took from his pocket-book a bank note, which he handed to the gendarme.
"'How so? replied the Abbé, somewhat nettled. 'What blunders could I make? It seems to me that I did precisely as others did. "'And I, on the contrary, would stake my life that you did nothing as others did. But let us begin at the beginning, and see which is right. In the first place there was your table-napkin what did you do with that when you sat down at table?
Ranald came to help her in his quiet, gentlemanly way, dabbing up the thick brown stream with his table-napkin. Pat slipped round to his mother and hugged her hard. And Olive, the only unmoved member of the party, looked on with contemptuous eyes the while she continued her breakfast. Jeanie still breakfasted upstairs in the schoolroom, and so missed the fracas.
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