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"So you, and this lady" she pointed a shaking finger at Julie "have held my reception for me. I am enormously obliged. You have also" she looked at the coffee-cups "provided my guests with refreshment. I thank you. I trust my servants have given you satisfaction. "Gentlemen" she turned to the rest of the company, who stood stupefied "I fear I cannot ask you to remain with me longer.
"Somebody was speaking aloud inside my head," he said a little wildly. "Eight hundred people and seven boats and no time! Just think of it." He leaned towards me across the little table, and I tried to avoid his stare. "Do you think I was afraid of death?" he asked in a voice very fierce and low. He brought down his open hand with a bang that made the coffee-cups dance.
I saw him myself afterwards, and he explained that the documents in question were produced just after he had left the room. He heard the countess utter a cry of dismay, and when he again entered the room in pretence of clearing away the coffee-cups, he found the lady in tears, while her niece declared hotly in French: 'I do not believe it!
Through all the land of France I know this unswept room at The Glory, with its peculiar smell of beans and coffee, where the butchers crowd about the stove, drinking the thinnest of wine from the smallest of tumblers; where the thickest of coffee-cups mingle with the longest of loaves, and the weakest of lump sugar; where Madame at the counter easily acknowledges the homage of all entering and departing butchers; where the billiard-table is covered up in the midst like a great bird-cake but the bird may sing by-and-by!
"You couldn't distinguish the sea from the sky; there was nothing to see and nothing to hear. Not a glimmer, not a shape, not a sound. You could have believed that every bit of dry land had gone to the bottom; that every man on earth but I and these beggars in the boat had got drowned." He leaned over the table with his knuckles propped amongst coffee-cups, liqueur-glasses, cigar-ends.
Collier Pratt seated himself at the deal table that Sheila had set with the coffee-cups and a big loaf of French bread, and began slowly consuming a bowl of inky fluid, strong of chicory, into which from time to time he dipped a portion of the loaf. Sheila imitated his processes with less daintiness and precision, since she was shaken with excitement at Hitty's appearance.
"I want cash, and cash I must have. Breakfast, Smithers. I'm going to travel." Francis Wade was breathless with astonishment. Educated and reared as he had been, he would as soon have thought of proposing to sell St. Paul's Cathedral as to sell the casket which held his treasures of art his coins, his coffee-cups, his pictures, and his "proofs before letters".
"Somewhere did I not once hear these words," says I musin'ly, as I set the coffee-cups on the table, "'You shall have the heathen for an inheritance' and 'preach the gospel to the heathen' and 'we who were sometime heathens, but have received light'? Did not the echo of some such words once reach my mind?"
The soldiers of his regiment did all their cooking in tin plates and coffee-cups, and slept for two months on the wet ground, under what are called "shelter"-tents, for the reason, I suppose, lucus a non lucendo, that they do not shelter. Dr.
It happened in a famous restaurant not far from the Comedie Francaise, where a number of French soldiers in a variety of uniforms dined with their ladies before going to the front after a day's leave from the fighting lines. Suddenly, into the buzz of voices and above the tinkle of glasses and coffee-cups one voice spoke in a formal way, with clear, deliberate words.
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