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Updated: June 8, 2025
Look again." The Prophet did so. But his eye blinked with fatigue and the heavens swam before it. "There is no Crab to-night," he said. "I assure you on my honour there is none." Exactly as he finished making this statement a low whistle rang through the silence of the night. The Prophet started, Madame jumped, and Malkiel bounded on the loving-cup. The whistle was repeated.
Then that curious, vague, soft contrition he had before experienced stole over him once again a sudden moisture filled his eyes, and turning abruptly toward his host he held out his own just filled goblet: "Drink we the loving-cup together, Sah-luma!" he said, and his voice trembled a little with its own deep tenderness, . . "Pledge me thy faith as I do pledge thee mine!
The hole a loving-cup is just under the stairs; and a good player ought to have no difficulty in doing it in two. The second hole, a short and simple one, takes you into the telephone booth. Trouble begins with the third, a long dog-leg hole through the kitchen into the dining-room.
"The loving-cup, the loving-cup! make the sour knave drink the loving-cup, else will we feed him to the fishes."
Geraldine turned a lightless face toward him. "Good-morning," she said. "Is this well a spring?" "Yes. Have you noticed how good the water is?" "I was just coming for a drink when you startled me. I didn't see you." "Allow me," said Rufus, picking up the half cocoanut shell which was chained to the wood. "Let's make a loving-cup of it. I'm thirsty, too."
A blue and white ginger jar, a copper loving-cup, or even a homely brown earthenware bean-pot, will make a good bowl for an oil or electric lamp, but of the dreadful bowls sold in the shops for the purpose the less said the better. How can one see beauty in a lurid bowl and shade of red glass! Better stick to wax candles the rest of your life than indulge in such a lamp!
So a huge loving-cup was brought; the waterman, grasping it by one of its handles, and with the other hand bearing up the end of an imaginary napkin, presented it in due and ancient form to Canty, who had to grasp the opposite handle with one of his hands and take off the lid with the other, according to ancient custom. This left the Prince hand-free for a second, of course.
Then in a flash all the love-fragrance seemed to go to my head Tom's mixing of that julep had been skilful, too and tears rose to my eyes, and there I might have been crying at my own party if I hadn't felt a strong warm hand laid on mine as it rested on my lap and Doctor John's kind voice teased into my ears: "Steady, Mrs. Peaches, there's the loving-cup to come yet," he whispered.
But he spoke little; and when Foster, my father's butler, put on the table the three-handled Maltravers' loving-cup that he had brought up Christmas by Christmas for thirty years, my brother merely passed it by without a taste. I saw by Foster's face that the master's malady was no longer a secret even from the servants.
But his grandmother was busy unfastening the strings of a little bag, and shook her head absently in answer to his question. She took out and handed to him a quaint old silver cup with two handles, that he could not remember ever to have seen. "What a charming old bit!" said he, turning it about. "Where in the world did it come from? English, of course; and it looks like a loving-cup.
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