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The kettle was on the fire, tea-things set, everything prepared for her guest by the hospitable hostess, who, thinking the gentleman would take tea to his breakfast, had sent off a GOSSOON by the FIRST LIGHT to Clonbrony, for an ounce of tea, a QUARTER OF SUGAR, and a loaf of white bread; and there was on the little table good cream, milk, butter, eggs all the promise of an excellent breakfast.
"Shall we have candles?" asked Mrs. Ward, when the tea-things were being removed, "or would you like best to sit in the twilight and watch the rising moon?" "I vote for twilight and the moon," said George, placing his grandmother's arm-chair in a cozy nook, from which she could see abroad; and then, seating himself on the stool at her feet, he waited till she should begin the promised story.
Tams, who had been clearing away the tea-things, came into the bedroom and said "Here's Mr. Fores, miss." Rachel started. "Mr. Fores! What does he want?" she asked querulously. Mrs. Tams preserved her blandness. "He asked for you, miss." "Didn't he ask how Mrs. Maldon is?" "No, miss." "Well, I don't want to see him. You might run down and tell him what the doctor said, Mrs. Tams."
Peter Magnus, that he laboured under a very considerable degree of nervousness, of which loss of appetite, a propensity to upset the tea-things, a spectral attempt at drollery, and an irresistible inclination to look at the clock, every other second, were among the principal symptoms. 'He-he-he,'tittered Mr. Magnus, affecting cheerfulness, and gasping with agitation.
In the meantime Hannah brought up the tea-things and toast-and-butter, and set all things in order upon the round table. "'You are very good, said little Marten to Mrs. Lovel; 'I will come and see you every day. "'You shall come as often as you please, said Mrs. Lovel, 'if you are a good little boy. "'Then I will come at breakfast-time, and at dinner-time, and at supper-time, said Marten.
They quitted it only with the removal of the tea-things. The card-table was then placed, and Elinor began to wonder at herself for having ever entertained a hope of finding time for conversation at the park. They all rose up in preparation for a round game.
He felt that he had done very well indeed when, having cleared the tea-things away, Nancy came and sat beside him with her hand in his. Her brother grunted, but Mr. Evans, in whom a vein of sentiment still lingered, watched them with much satisfaction. Mr.
Conover's predecessor removed the tea-things and brought out a tray of glasses and lemonade with ice clinking refreshingly against the sides of the jug. When the game was over, the players came and drank and sat about the lawn. The shadow of the apse had spread over the garden to the steps of the porch.
The tea-things were on the table, the teapot cover was open, and a little hand-bell had been laid at that precise point towards which a person seated in the great chair might be expected instinctively to stretch his hand. Stockdale sat down, not objecting to his experience of the room thus far, and began his residence by tinkling the bell.
"There is no need to indulge in luxuries on an ordinary weekday; but I thought, I've an invalid at home, so it is excusable. And the caviare is good, real sturgeon. . . ." The man in the white shirt brought in the samovar and a tray with tea-things. "Eat some," said Father Christopher, spreading the caviare on a slice of bread and handing it to Yegorushka.
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