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You must tell us more about the Bellinghams when we have fortified you with a cup of tea." Our talk had brought us to Thorndyke's chambers, which were on the first floor of No. 5A, King's Bench Walk, and as we entered the fine, spacious, paneled room we found a small, elderly man, neatly dressed in black, setting out the tea-service on the table. I glanced at him with some curiosity.
Two foreign-looking servants in foreign-looking house-liveries were bringing a table on which was an enormous silver tray with a tea-service of antique silver and artistic china. As Olivia turned to seat herself a young man and a woman of perhaps forty, obviously from the East, came through the doors at the far end of the long porch.
"I sha'n't take you, nor your master neither, so you may both make the best of it." "Don't say that, father," said Mark earnestly. "Take me this once. I do so want to see China!" "Here, mother," said the captain laughing; "take Mark up stairs and show him your best tea-service, the one I brought home last year. Like to see Japan, too, my lad?"
Without the faintest hope of winning, Mr. Tucker, who realised clearly, appearances notwithstanding, that he had fallen into a trap, rose after a hurried rest and started on his fifth race that morning. The prize was only a second-rate groom with plated buttons, who was waving cheery farewells to him with a dingy top hat; but the boatswain would have sooner had it than a silver tea-service.
There is a little Lowestoft tea-service that was picked up only last week at Christie and Manson's, a turquoise blue crackle jar that is supposed to be priceless, and a pair of "Long Eliza" vases, which her hostess loves as much as she does her toy terrier, and far better than she loves her husband. What will become of her, Vera Nevill, if Mrs.
In the great sala, with its groups of ancient Spanish and modern European furniture making as if different centres under the high white spread of the ceiling, the silver and porcelain of the tea-service gleamed among a cluster of dwarf chairs, like a bit of a lady's boudoir, putting in a note of feminine and intimate delicacy.
Meanwhile Ishmael lay extended upon his bed, clasping his temples and waging a silent war with his emotions. A rap disturbed him. "Come in." Powers entered with a tea tray in his hands, upon which was neatly arranged a little silver tea-service, with a transparent white cup, saucer, and plate.
You're as dark here as a gaol." "Let me ring for candles, uncle." "No; I'm going." She tried to touch him, to draw him to a chair. The agile old man bounded away from her, and she had to pacify him submissively before he would consent to be seated. The tea-service was brought, and Rhoda made tea, and filled a cup for him. Anthony began to enjoy the repose of the room.
Well do I remember when, in 1813 or 1814, a good workman in this craft could realise 36s. a week. There were even traditions then of men who had occasionally eaten pound-notes upon bread and butter, or allowed their wives to spend L.8 upon a fine china tea-service.
Even under those most favourable circumstances of having had the delightful gathering of the flowers in the sweet sunny fields the picking of them in the happy holiday afternoon the permission to use the best doll's tea-service for the feast the loan of a nice white table-cloth and the present of half-a-dozen pewter knives and forks to fancy-cut the biscuits with nay, even in spite of the addition of well-filled doll's sugar-pots and cream-jugs cowslip-tea always seems to want either a leetle more or a leetle less sugar or a leetle more or a leetle less cream or to be a leetle more or a leetle less strong to turn it into that complete nectar which, of course, it really IS.
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