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Updated: May 23, 2025
Ida's tea table stood by the hearth, with innovations such as a silver tea-ball, and a porcelain cracker jar decorated with a rich design in the minutely cut and shellacked details of postage stamps. A fire winked sleepily behind the polished steel bars of the grate, the western window was full of potted begonias and ferns, the air was close and pleasantly scented with the odour of a good cigar.
"Not unless I can wiggle the tea-ball afterward," announced Betty firmly. Katherine examined a blue and white cup critically. "I think you must be mistaken, Rachel," she said. "These cups don't need washing. They're perfectly clean, but I'll dust them off if you insist."
Betty found a silver tea-ball she exclaimed rapturously: "Look here, Donald! Did you ever see the like of this? Here is a regular tea-ball. We will have tea every afternoon at four, and Mrs. Burke will be our guest. How perfectly delightful." This remark seemed to please Hepsey mightily, as she exclaimed: "Oh, my, no! Do you want to spoil my nervous system?
Fairfield added the most fascinating little silver tea-caddy and tea-ball and strainer. "Oh," exclaimed Marian, made quite breathless by the glory of it all, "the Tea Club will never want to meet anywhere except at your house, Patty." "They'll have to," said Patty. "I don't propose to have them every time." "Well, you'll have to have them every other time, anyway," said Marian.
Finally Katherine agreed that Betty might "wiggle the tea-ball" provided that she Katherine should be allowed two pieces of lemon in every cup; and the three lively damsels settled down into a sedate group of tea-drinkers.
'Will you blow out the lamp? As she spoke she dropped a battered silver tea-ball into the water, and moved it about by its little chain. Mr. Van Torp took off his hat, and bent down sideways till his flat cheek rested on the knight's stone shin, and he blew out the flame with one well-aimed puff.
"Oh, we have talked about that," said my lady of the teacups as she dangled the tea-ball with a connoisseur's fondness, "and we have even said that we wished the wonderful little psalm could have been finished in the one figure of shepherd life."
One afternoon when Marjorie was out walking with Alice Endicott, Lily, with notebook and pencil in hand, hurried over to Ruth's room. She found her sitting languidly beside her wicker tea-table, playing with the tea-ball, and carrying on a disconcerted conversation with Evelyn. "How many times do I have to tell you not to knock, Lily Andrews!" she exclaimed.
Then, right there on the open hills, he leads his sheep 'beside the still waters. I know of nothing more fit to picture the Shepherd's care of souls that trust him than that scene up there on the mountainside." While our thoughts were carried away to these scenes of thirsty flocks drinking, I chanced to notice that the tea-ball was again quietly at work.
Lady Maud did not look at the top of his head, nor steal a furtive glance at the strong muscles and sinews of his solid neck. She did nothing of the kind. She bobbed the tea-ball up and down in the saucepan by its chain, and watched how the hot water turned brown. 'But I did not give you a "business acknowledgment," as you call it, she said thoughtfully.
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