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When Ellen was at home Joanna was lofty and exclusive, and had her meals in the dining-room she did not think it right that her little sister, with all her new accomplishments and elegancies, should lead the common, kitchen life also, of course, when Martin came they sat down in state, with pink wine-glasses beside their tumblers.
The little old gentleman took a small phial from his waistcoat pocket, and, filling one of the massive wine-glasses from a decanter, measured into it some half-a-dozen drops. Then he placed the glass in the centre of the table. "Youth is a good time to go back to," said the peak-faced little gentleman, with a smile. "Twenty years ago, it was the night of the Hunt Ball. You remember it?"
Edward assured him that he could. After fifteen minutes or so the President came up to where the boy was waiting, and said abruptly: "Tell me, my boy, why did you have the wine-glasses removed from your place?" Edward was completely taken aback at the question, but he explained his resolution as well as he could. "Did you make that decision this evening?" the President asked. He had.
It could not be pleasant to dine in a hall which had just been left by hundreds of men, and to make the meal amid the prospect of slovenly servants employed in the emptying of wine-glasses and the ligurrition of dishes, sometimes even in passages of coquetry or noisy civilities, on the interchange of which the presence of these undergraduates seemed to impose but little check.
For strawberry ice cream, mix with the powdered sugar the juice of a quart of ripe strawberries squeezed through a linen. Beat half the white of an egg to a stiff froth, and then stir it hard into three wine-glasses of filtered water. Pour on it the white of egg and water, and stir it till dissolved. Then add twelve grains of cochineal powder.
We thought he was fooling when he dropped on the floor.... Everything was done that could be done.... He couldn't have suffered.... He was happy up to the last minute of his life shouting with laughter." She saw the long lighted room. She saw it with yellow walls and yellow lights, with a long, white table and clear, empty wine-glasses. Men in straw-coloured bamboo armchairs turning round to look.
He must have now been a week in Ireland." "I shall go there myself," replied my father: "and there are no means that I will not resort to, to discover this infamous plot. No," exclaimed he, striking his fist on the table, so as to shiver two of the wine-glasses into fragments "no means but I will resort to."
The upper part of the window was occupied by Katherine's large cage of canary birds, and below was a stand of flower-pots, a cactus which never dreamt of blossoming, an ice-plant, and a columnia belonging to Katherine, a nourishing daphne of Helen's, and a verbena, and a few geranium cuttings which she had brought from Dykelands, looking very miserable under cracked tumblers and stemless wine-glasses.
Lost in himself, he kept his eyes fixed on the ripening bottle, waiting with heroic self-denial, nor uttering a single audible oath, until the sound of its opening should herald the outbursting blossom of the nightly flower of existence. The thing hard to bear was, that there were no fresh wine-glasses on the table only the one he had taken care to bring with the old bottle.
You admire the divine Fatime?" "The face is beautiful," Arnold admitted. "I am afraid I was a few minutes early. It began to rain and I walked fast." Sabatini smiled. A butler had followed him into the room, bearing on a tray two wine-glasses full of clear yellow liquid. "Vermouth and one tiny cigarette," Sabatini suggested, "the best apéretif in the world. Permit me, Mr.
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