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Peering out every now and then from the deep shade, cast by one of the angles of the cathedral, and as swiftly and cautiously drawn back again, was a trencher apparently watching Ketch. As soon as that functionary was fairly launched on his way, the trencher came out completely, and went flying at a swift pace round the college to the Boundaries. It was not worn by Bywater.
One coming across from the opposite side and looking upward at a diagonal slant could see through the windows along the front side of the Clarenden with some prospect of making out the faces of such diners as sat at tables near the windows. Straining his eyes as he crossed over, Trencher thought he recognised his man.
"Why, now you are angry, mother," said Margaret, detaining her; "this comes of your coming out at eventide without eating your supper I never heard you utter a cross word after you had finished your little morsel. Here, Janet, a trencher and salt for Dame Ursula; and what have you in that porringer, dame?
VIII. Item, That no man waite at the table without a trencher in his hand, except it be vppon some good cause, on paine of Id. IX. Item, That no man appointed to waite at my table be absent that meale, without reasonable cause, on paine of 1d.
Both were decorated in the same manner; the carving on the idol exactly corresponding with the tattooing of the king. Presently, the silence was relieved by a commotion without: and a butler approached, staggering under an immense wooden trencher; which, with profound genuflexions, he deposited upon the altar before us.
F. Kinloch, our member of Congress, was at a neighboring house, I sent him the following note. Honorable Sir, If in these dangerous times you can think yourself safe among a handful of militia-men, I shall be very glad to see you at our camp. As to supper, thank God we can give you a trencher of fat pork and potatoes, but for bed and furniture, we can promise you nothing better than earth and sky.
This high-flown discourse was interrupted by Dame Glendinning, who, with all the busy anxiety of a mother, was loading her son's trencher with food, and dinning in his ear her reproaches on account of his prolonged absence.
He stirred the oatmeal into the pot of boiling water, made the porridge, set the huge smoking dish on the center of the table, put the children's mugs round, laid a trencher of brown bread and a tiny morsel of butter on the board, and then, having seen that Grannie's teapot held an extra pinch of tea, he poured boiling water on it, and announced the meal as ready.
'I see, said Martha; 'no, I don't want your box, miss. What you want is to get the precious Lamb off your hands for the afternoon. Don't you go for to think I don't see through you! This was so true that Anthea longed to deny it at once Martha had no business to know so much. But she held her tongue. Martha set down the bread with a bang that made it jump off its trencher.
He carried on his head, as a fishwife carries a tray of ormers, a basket full of flagons of muscadella; and he did not lower the basket when he was shown into the room where the Seigneur of Rozel was sitting before a trencher of spiced veal and a great pot of ale.
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