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"No, I thank you," said he, and then wondered if perhaps he should not have said yes, as he watched the other select the largest of the half-dozen wine-glasses clustered at her place, and pour herself out a generous libation. "Have you seen much of the city?" she asked, as she tossed it off without as much as a quiver of an eyelash. "No," said he. "They have not given me much time.
"No," said the girl, carefully drying and arranging the quaint Egyptian tea-set, "and I won't for ages." "But you're not going to wash all those things? The concierge does that." "No, only the wine-glasses and the tea-set. The idea of trusting such fragile cups to a concierge! What a boy!" But she was soon ready to dry her slender hands, and caught up a towel with a demure glance at Gethryn.
On a board, at the side of the door, are placed about twenty books—all odd volumes; and as many wine-glasses—all different patterns; several locks, an old earthenware pan, full of rusty keys; two or three gaudy chimney-ornaments—cracked, of course; the remains of a lustre, without any drops; a round frame like a capital O, which has once held a mirror; a flute, complete with the exception of the middle joint; a pair of curling-irons; and a tinder-box.
Behind a door, in the crumby part of the night when wine-glasses were to be found in unexpected spots, I spoke to Her spoke out to Her. What passed, I cannot as a man of honour reveal. Anybody's long-lost brother will do ill to turn up on a birthday.
Clara was a hale old woman, with rather an acid expression of countenance, prim in her appearance, and evidently precise in her manners. She placed a bottle and two wine-glasses with long, thin stems on the table; and having removed the game and changed the plates, she disappeared. "Pray what wine is this, Mr. Beckendorff?" eagerly asked the Prince. "I really don't know. I never drink wine."
As Crailey Gray never danced with Miss Carewe, it is somewhat singular that she should have been the inspiration of his swinging verses in waltz measure, "Heart-strings on a Violin," the sense of which was that when a violin had played for her dancing, the instrument should be shattered as wine-glasses are after a great toast.
Set them in a cool open, and as soon as they are coloured, they are done. Then take them out and place them two bottoms together. Lay them lightly on sieve, and dry them in a cool oven, till the two bottoms stick fast together, so as to form one ball or oval. Four eggs. Three quarters of a pound of flour, sifted. Half a pound of powdered white sugar. Two wine-glasses and a half of rich milk.
"It was Goldsturmer," said Gorman, "who told me. He seemed to think that Miss Donovan might buy them." Madame at once knocked down two wine-glasses and a vase of flowers. "That cursed offspring of the litter of filthy Jews who make Hamburg stink! Tell him that I will pull out his hair, his teeth, his eyes, but that never, never will that American miss touch one of my pearls.
The porcelain and glass rooms convey an idea of the boundless hospitality bestowed; the thousands of wine-glasses being especially noticeable, for 800 guests are often invited at a time.
Quarterpage turned to a corner cupboard and in silence produced a decanter and two curiously-shaped old wine-glasses. He carefully polished the glasses with a cloth which he took from a drawer, and set glasses and decanter on a table in the window, motioning Spargo to take a chair in proximity thereto. He himself pulled up his own elbow-chair. "We'll take a glass of my old brown sherry," he said.
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