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When the cloth was drawn, and the wine-flasks glittered ruby and golden upon the polished board, the old butler came in, bearing upon a tray a large silver box of tobacco, with pipes and stoppers and a wax candle burning, ready to light them, as then the fashion was in companies composed exclusively of gentlemen.
"Put the wine-flasks into thy basket," said Joceline, "the knight must not lack his evening draught and down with thee to the hut like a lapwing. There is enough for supper, and to-morrow is a new day. Ha! by heaven I thought yonder man's eye watched us No he only rolled it round him in a brown study Deep enough doubtless, as they all are.
No Venetian wine-flasks, no languorous lilies swooning in Salviati goblets, no pottery of the new green and yellow school, but massive silver, and heavy diamond-cut glass gaudy Staffordshire china of 'too utterly quite' the worst period of art. Everything essentially Philistine.
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