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Updated: May 10, 2025
When my husband came in, I was eager to show him the Mercury, and the lily, and the taper-stand. "And do you know, after all, I hadn't the real nobleness and truthfulness and right-mindedness to tell Mrs. Harris that these and Aunt Allen's gift were all I had received! I am ashamed of myself, to have such a mean mortification about what is really of no importance.
We had scarcely half admired the taper-stand and the Mercury when the carriage came for Mrs. Harris, who insisted on taking away Laura with her to the opera. "No matter whether you thought of going or not; and, happily, there's no danger of Delphine being lonely. 'Two are company, you know Emerson says, 'but three are a congregation. So they will be glad to spare you.
Winston lighted a cigar with an allumette from a bronze taper-stand a Christmas gift from his wife, which she kept supplied with fanciful spiles twisted and fringed into a variety of shapes; drew several long breaths to be certain that the fire had taken hold of the heart of the Havana, tossed the pretty paper into the embers, and resumed his seat in the chimney corner.
He sat down in his large green morocco elbow-chair, drew himself close to his table, and glowered and gloomed at his writing apparatus, "a very handsome old box, richly carved, lined with crimson velvet, and containing ink-bottles, taper-stand, etc., in silver, the whole in such order that it might have come from the silversmith's window half an hour before."
She drew a little box from her pocket, and took out of it a taper-stand of chased silver. "Mrs. Gore asked me to bring it to you, with her love. She wouldn't send it yesterday, she said, because it would look so like nothing by the side of costly gifts. Pretty, graceful little thing! isn't it? It is an evening-primrose, I think, 'love's own light, hey, Delphine?"
The one seized upon Bontem's rug and couch, and in an instant had whipped them off into an ante-chamber, another had carried away the en cas meal and the silver taper-stand; while a third drew back the great curtains of stamped velvet and let a flood of light into the apartment.
A miracle of exquisite neatness the room was rather effeminate, perhaps, in its attributes; but that was no sign of the Colonel's tastes, but of his popularity with the ladies. All those pretty things were their gifts. The tapestry on the chairs their work the Sevres on the consoles the clock on the mantel-shelf the inkstand, paper-cutter, taper-stand on the writing-table their birthday presents.
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