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'Ay, come in an' ha'e a cup o' tea or summat. You'll do wi' summat, carrin' that bod. Come on, Maggie wench, let's go in. So we went indoors, into the rather stuffy, overcrowded living-room, that was too cosy, and too warm. The son followed last, standing in the doorway. The father talked to me. Maggie put out the tea-cups. The mother went into the dairy again.
Silently the rats gathered, scurrying in on noiseless paws, stealing into the chairs, swarming about the doorways, pricking up their ears in the corridors. And through the awful hush rose the master's silvery notes in rapturous self-oblivion till the day began to wane, and the stewards to appear with the tea-cups.
"How proud I was of that mantilla!" she said. "I remember it so well. It was green. Do you recall it, Lucretia?" Miss Lucretia nodded, her frail hands busy with the tea-cups. "I do. And the turban with the green plume you wore with it." Mark glanced from the picture of the child to the face of the woman whose youth was past.
The artist himself, becomingly clad in mouse-coloured velveteen, had just turned away from the picture to hover above the tea-cups; but his place had been taken by the considerably broader bulk of Mr. Peter Van Degen, who, tightly moulded into a coat of the latest cut, stood before the portrait in the attitude of a first arrival.
It is no longer the elderly lady who presides at the tea-kettle; the tabbies do not make or drink the teas; the younger pussies are the queens of four-o'clock tea. It is whispered that it is a convenient alias for flirtation, or something even sweeter that many engagements have been made at "four-o'clock teas." Certainly it is a very good opportunity for showing one's tea-cups.
He only knew that he liked sitting by Bessie and that if he sat he must talk, and so he kept on and only arose to go when he heard the rattling of tea-cups outside and guessed that Mrs. Buncher might be preparing to bring up luncheon. About half-past four that afternoon Mrs.
The chair in which she sat wore a Chinese blue drapery. The yellow tea-cups gave the highest note in the picture. "If I were Whistler, I should ask you to let me paint your portrait like that yes, with my despicable yellow tea-cup in your honourable hand." "If you were Mr. Whistler or anything in the least like Mr. Whistler I shouldn't be drinking tea out of your honourable tea-cup," she said.
Small foreign lacquer trays were likewise to be seen, laden with diminutive painted tea-cups of antique ware. Transparent gauze screens with frames of carved blackwood, ornamented with a fringe representing flowers and giving the text of verses, figured too here and there. At the upper two tables sat 'sister-in-law' Li and Mrs. Hsueeh. On the east was only laid a single table.
Their seats were stools, their table was an empty flour-barrel, their apartment a cellar. A farthing candle stood awry in the neck of a pint bottle. A broken-lipped jug of gin-and-water hot, and two cracked tea-cups stood between them.
In aristocratic drawing-rooms, there were whispers over the tea-cups; the luck of Ramon Hamilton, the rising young lawyer, whose engagement to Anita Lawton, daughter and sole heiress of the dead financier, had just been announced, was remarked upon with the frankness of envy, left momentarily unguarded by the sudden shock. For three days Pennington Lawton lay in simple, but veritable state.
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