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Bennett had hidden his glass behind the toast-rack. "And it's only two-thirds empty," she declared. "Ward, why will you be such a boy?" "Oh, well," he grumbled, and without more ado drank off the balance. "Now I'll read to you if you have everything you want. Adler, I think you can open one of those windows; it's so warm out of doors."
"Anything new?" asked Sidney, from the head of the table. "Well, yes," was the reply. "There has been a disturbance in Paris. I may have to go over there on receipt of a telegram from the office;" he stopped, and looked slowly round the table. Hilda's attention was taken up by her plate, upon which, however, there was nothing. He leant forward, and handed her the toast-rack.
For breakfast there was a whole loaf on a platter, three breakfast rolls hot from the baker, and the family toast-rack full of tough, damp toast. A large pale-green duck's egg sat heavily in an egg-cup, capped, but not covered, by a strange red flannel thing representing a cock's head, which Pamela learned later was called an "egg-cosy" and had come from the sale of work for Foreign Missions.
"The tiresome boy!" she said querulously, but without alarm. "What are we to do? You see, Mr. Morton thinks we ought to do something. He mentions a Mr. Cathcart." Mrs. Baxter reached out for the toast-rack. "My dear, there's nothing to be done. You know what Laurie is. It'll only make him worse." Maggie looked at her uneasily. "I wish we could do something," she said.
Her glance conveyed a scornful reproach that he could eat at all in such circumstances, and, that there might be no mistake as to her own feelings, she ostentatiously pushed the toast-rack and egg-stand away from her. "You you're not eating, my dear," said Mr. Chalk. "If I ate anything it would choke me," was the reply. Mr. Chalk affected surprise, but his voice quavered.
She had her revenge when he was gone. On the day of his departure, my lamentations had met with the warmest sympathy as I stirred toffy over Jane's kitchen fire, whilst Martha lingered with the breakfast things, after a fashion very unusual with her, and gazed at the toast-rack and said, "the Colonel had eaten nothing of a breakfast to travel on." But next morning, I met her in another mood.
A night's rest had wrought a wonderful change in Miss Nelly. The pallor and weariness of the journey had passed away. I looked at her through the toast-rack and thought I had never seen anything more winning than her smile. After breakfast she went out with me to the stable to see Gypsy, and the three of us became friends then and there.
When you are called to Downing Street to discuss what you want of your betters with the Prime Minister he won't be suspicious, not as far as you can see; but remember the atmosphere of generations you are in, and when he passes you the toast-rack say to yourselves, if you would be in the mode, 'Now, I wonder what he means by that.
A cumbersome, stately Dutch clock and a toast-rack of what Josephine styled medieval pattern, were among the other discoveries. The latter was reposing in a soap-box in company with a battered, vulgar nutmeg-grater.
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