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Updated: June 11, 2025
There was a clean cloth upon it, a tea-pot, cups and saucers, a large plate of bread-and-butter, and a plate, on which were a few very thin slices of brown, watery cheese. My good friends took their seats, the wife poured out tea for the stranger and her husband, helped us both to bread-and-butter and the watery cheese, then took care of herself.
In the principal room, on the first floor of this hovel, a little poor furniture had been put; a shabby sofa, an equally shabby arm-chair, a few cane-bottomed chairs, and a deal table. On the table was a tea-pot, a small kettle over a spirit-stove, and a few cups and small cakes.
For instance, he, on several different occasions, willed to screw off the spout of the family tea-pot, a pewter one, and, having willed to do it, he did it.
Mistress Affery, sensible of the danger in which her identity stood, relinquished the tea-pot as her husband seized it, put her apron over her head, and in a twinkling vanished. The visitor gradually broke into a smile, and sat down again. 'You'll excuse her, Mr Blandois, said Jeremiah, pouring out the tea himself, 'she's failing and breaking up; that's what she's about. Do you take sugar, sir?
She wore a dress of small-patterned print, with a broad collar of cheap lace. 'It was too hot to light a fire, she said, rising as Lydia entered. 'Mrs. Jarmey says she'll give us water for the tea. 'I hoped you'd be having yours, Lydia replied. 'It's nearly six o'clock. I'll take the tea-pot down, dear.
The brochure was diligently scattered through the provinces, lauded around the tea-pot, openly extolled in the prints by some kindred spirit, as was manifest in the striking similarity of style and by one believer, more zealous or perhaps more interested than the rest, actually put on board the next ship which sailed for "home," as England was then affectionately termed, enclosed in an envelope which bore an address no less imposing than the Majesty of Britain.
Yet when her eye rested on the Corot, Madeleine's only pride, she was evidently perplexed, and resorted to eye-glasses, in order, as it seemed, to gain time for reflection. But she was not to be disconcerted even by Corot's masterpiece: "How pretty! Japanese, isn't it? Sea-weeds seen through a fog. I went to an auction yesterday, and do you know I bought a tea-pot with a picture just like that."
The cheerful content of his boyish face when he himself sat down near the table was delightful. "Now," he said, "we can ring up for the first act." She filled the tea-pot and held it for a moment, and then set it down as though her feelings were too much for her. "I feel as if I were in a dream," she quavered happily. "I do indeed." "But it's a nice one, ain't it? " he answered.
Frank was in his dressing-gown, very good taste, quite Oriental, guaranteed to be true Indian cashmere, and charged as such. Nothing could be more neat, though perfectly simple, than the appurtenances of his breakfast-table: silver tea-pot, ewer, and basin, all fitting into his dressing-box for the which may Storr and Mortimer be now praised, and some day paid!
One player leaves the room, and while he is gone the rest decide upon some word which has several meanings, which he must guess when he comes in. The rest of the players converse about the word, but instead of mentioning it, say "Tea-pot" in its place. Suppose the word chosen is "vain." No. 1 may say: "She is altogether too tea-pot for me."
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