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A large tea-urn and boiling water. A saucepan, containing three eggs nicely done. A quarter of a pound of best Epping butter. A brown loaf. And if he hadn't enough now for a good breakfast, I should like to know who ever had one? Giglio, having had his breakfast, popped all the things back into the bag, and went out looking for lodgings.
Amidst one of these groups Mainwaring had bashfully ensconced himself. In the farther division, the chandelier, suspended from the domed ceiling, threw its cheerful light over a large circular table below, on which gleamed the ponderous tea-urn of massive silver, with its usual accompaniments.
Listen to that weird music which some hundreds of fearful voices are organing down this chimney; or to the strange little spirit-like ditty which the tea-urn is just beginning to sing." "Oh! most ingenious indeed!" cried Madame von G. "Even into the very tea-urn Dagobert conjures spirits which render themselves cognisable to us by fearful cries of woe." "But he is not far wrong, dear mother!"
He is a very handsome fellow, six feet high." I had not found my tongue before we had ascended a broad flight of stairs under the portico, passed a spacious hall adorned with statues and fragrant with large orange-trees, and, entering a small room hung with pictures, in which were arranged all the appliances for breakfast, my companion said to a lady, who rose from behind the tea-urn: "My dear Ellinor, I introduce to you the son of our old friend Augustine Caxton.
This is due partly to the superior quality of the leaf, and partly to the manner of its preparation. The "samovar" or tea-urn is an indispensable article in a Russian household, and is found in nearly every dwelling from the Baltic to Bering's Sea.
Lady Chillingly, who was fortunately busied at the tea-urn, did not observe the dismay on his countenance. It was visible only to Cecilia and to Gordon. Neither guessed who that letter was from. "No bad news, I hope," said Cecilia, softly. "Bad news," echoed Sir Peter. "No, my dear, no; a letter on business.
Pope was the Homer of the drawing-room, the boudoir, the tea-urn, the ombre-party, the sedan-chair, the parrot cage, and the lap-dogs. This poem, in its sparkle and airy grace, is the topmost blossom of a highly artificial society, the quintessence of whatever poetry was possible in those Tea-cup times of hood and hoop, And when the patch was worn,
Her scorn of Marcia was ineffable, and I think the girl at the tea-urn had a sense of being at a disadvantage, for the idea of Una's frank admission had never entered Marcia's pretty intriguing head. She was hoist with her own petard and covered her confusion by a light laugh which was most unconvincing. "Of course, Una, I didn't mean "
The spring even, which presented itself in the outer room, was full of significance. Certainly it was only represented by a tea-urn concealed between moss and stones, but the water was real water, brought from the well in Christiansborg. Astounding and full of effect was the multitude of sweet young girls who showed themselves.
"Perhaps we had better give politics the go-by and join the ladies," said his lordship, rising and moving towards the parlor. Pompey brought in the tea-urn, cups and saucers, sugar and cream. "Shall I pass you a cup, Miss Newville?" Lord Upperton asked. "Thank you, my lord, but I do not drink tea." "Ha, ha! Miss Newville, so you have joined the other conspirators to outwit Lord North!"
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