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And give yourself no concern. I am going to use everything we have: all our cups and saucers, no matter whether they are Spode, Lowestoft, or Worcester; all the platters, German beer mugs, candlesticks even that rare old tablecloth trimmed with church lace.
He passed an old curiosity shop, black and white, with a projecting upper storey, lattice windows with tiny panes, a door of black oak upon which many people had carved their names. By the door stood a spinning-wheel. In the window were a tea service of spode and a collection of luster ware. There were also some Toby jugs. Dion went in quickly and bought one for Robin.
Malachi the old man is very feeble moves slowly around a square table covered with a snow- white cloth, with seats set for four one a high chair with little arms. In his hands are a heap of cups and saucers the same Spode cups and saucers he looked after so carefully in the old house at home. These he places near the smoking coffee-urn.
This is old Spode," he continued, pointing to the cipher on the bottom of each cup. "Vell, I didn't tink dot ven I bought it." There was no greeting, no reference to their having met before. One might have supposed that their last talk had been uninterrupted. "It vas all in a lump, and der vas a soup tureen in de lot I don't know vot I did vid it. I tink dat's up-stairs.
He gave ten shillings for it, and subsequently, by the aid of a scrubbing brush and some water, detected the hieroglyphics "Copeland late Spode" on the bottom of it! Here the destruction is quite recent, and has been brought about by some who entertained us very hospitably on the Misinjé, before we came to the confluence.
Beyond this there was nothing save the professor's carelessness with the family Spode an annoying device for diverting attention in moments of embarrassment. Against this circumstantial evidence there was the common-sense argument that the real Mary of the professor's romance would hardly be likely, under the circumstances, to propose herself as his aunt's guest.
Gashleigh thought, whose rich uncle had purchased it for the young couple, at Spode and Copeland's; but it was only for twelve persons. It was agreed that it would be, in all respects, cheaper and better to purchase a dozen more dessert-plates; and with "my silver basket in the centre," Mrs.
The verandah was paved with marble, there was some fine mahogany carving in the central hall, the dessert-service was of George II. silver-gilt, and the china beautiful old Spode. Everything else about the place told its own story of desperate financial conditions.
Miss Emmeline had already discovered the Lowestoft and Spode pieces in our built-in cupboards; that there were two perfect apostle jugs in the cabinet in the hall: that our Chelsea figures were lovelier than any she had heretofore seen; and that Hynds House, in which everything was genuine, had an atmosphere that appealed to her soul, or maybe matched her clear-green aura.
This seductive concoction the most potent of all Malachi's beverages was always served from a green and gold Chinese bowl, and drunk not from the customary low tumblers, but from special Spode cups, and was, I must confess, productive of a head for I myself was once tempted to drink a bumper of it at this most delightful of houses with young Oliver, many years ago, it is true, but I have never forgotten it productive of an ACHING head, I think I said, that felt as big in the morning as the Canton bowl in which the mixture had been brewed.
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