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She had tried to ease her mind by arranging and rearranging the furniture regular lodging house furniture table, six chairs, horse-hair sofa, a what not, and the chiffonnier, with a tea-caddy upon it, of which the respective keys had been solemnly presented to Miss Hilary.
At twenty-five minutes to six he put the book back in the window-sill, dashed a few crumbs from his jacket, assumed a mortar-board cap that was lying on the tea-caddy, and went forth to his evening "preparation duty." The West Street was empty and shining golden with the sunset.
I came on the twenty-ninth, and this is the eighth of November." "When are you going away?" "I don't know." John crossed his right leg over his left, shifted his position and shaded his eyes with his hand. Miss Gibbie took up the tea-caddy. "Do you think you've accomplished great things by coming?
She flung her keys towards the door, and they fell with a jingle into my room. They were the keys of the sideboard, of the kitchen cupboard, of the cellar, and of the tea-caddy, the keys which my mother used to carry. "Oh, merciful heavens!" cried the old woman in horror. "Holy Saints above!" Before going home my sister came into my room to pick up the keys, and said: "You must forgive me.
The starry diamonds upon her white fingers flashed hither and thither among the tea-things, and she bent her pretty head over the marvelous Indian tea-caddy of sandal-wood and silver, with as much earnestness as if life held no higher purpose than the infusion of Bohea. "You'll take a cup of tea with us, Mr.
I knew it would be almost impossible to get any of that money from her willingly, and though I told myself that in this issue of passion and death no detail mattered, I could not get rid of tormenting scruples whenever I thought of that tea-caddy. Was there no other course? Perhaps after every other source had been tapped I might supplement with a few shillings frankly begged from her.
Elettra left the room, and Matilde settled herself to make the tea, as women do, raising her elbow a little on each side and then dropping them again, bending her face down to see whether the lamp were burning well, opening the teapot, pouring a little hot water into it, opening and shutting the tea-caddy, and settling each spoon in each saucer in a dainty and utterly futile way.
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.
Langhope exchanged his own chair for a place at her side. "Now what on earth does this mean?" he asked, lighting a cigarette in response to her slight nod of consent. Mrs. Ansell's gaze lost itself in the depths of the empty tea-pot. "A number of things or any one of them," she said at length, extending her arm toward the tea-caddy.
"'Well, she remarked, 'this is a temperance town, and it is a good thing for the working people and the young men, but I have a touch of malaria now and then myself. Then she went to the tea-caddy and pulled out a bottle of brandy. The senator by this time was in perfect harmony with himself and the whole world.
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