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In him this dishevelment was shocking. "What ails you, Stephen?" she cried. "Have you been drinking?" "No. I didn't drink much. I brought you something." He took the loving-cup from its flannel bag and set it upon the table. "They gave me this." "It is very pretty, though I don't care for such things." "And this too." He tossed the watch with its enamelled monogram into her lap. "Ah!
He handed a handsome loving-cup to Cortlandt, who thanked him appropriately, then waited courteously for the party to break up. But Anthony rose, saying: "I simply have to say a word on my own account, fellows, for I owe Mr. Cortlandt more than any of you." The object of these remarks shot a swift, questioning glance from his stony eyes, and raised a hand as if to check him.
One of them, for example, mentions a loving-cup of Frederick William III's time, kept at the hunting lodge of Letzlingen, which is filled with champagne and must be emptied at a draught by anyone visiting the lodge for the first time.
And yet, even as he tried to persuade himself that all would still be well, he could not help recalling the fierce vehemence with which Nina had repudiated the suggestion that perhaps she might let some one else drink out of this hapless loving-cup that now lay before him.
My lord Beltane, upon thy wedding night did I, with traitorous hand, infuse a potent drug within the loving-cup, whereby our lady Duchess fell into a swoon nigh unto death. And while she lay thus, I took from her the marriage-robe the gown of blue and silver. Thereafter came I, with my henchman Ulf the Strong and found thee sleeping in the chapel.
A case of silver-mounted surgical instruments had vanished from a shelf, with a presentation loving-cup, given by admirers among De Boursy-Williams's patients to that gifted practitioner.
There is a wonderful collection of old family dresses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and above all there is the very ancient silver-gilt cup, "The Lion of Glamis," which holds an entire bottle of wine, and on great family occasions is still produced and used as a loving-cup, circulating from hand to hand round the table.
I know how many years you were in the service of the Company, and how your pension was voted unanimously by the Directors, and about the silver loving-cup your fellow employees in the office gave you when you retired; and indeed every single thing about you, except the exact relation of the elderly invalid to whose care you gave up so generously so much of your life; I'm not sure whether I she was an aunt or a second-cousin."
This request having been foreseen was immediately complied with, and a great silver loving-cup with two handles and filled with a compound of Holland gin, sugar, and spice, with a moderate amount of water, was brought and presented to the governor who tasted decorously, and then passed it to the sachem, who seizing both handles carried it to his mouth and drank with an air of stern determination, as one who would not allow personal distaste to interfere with public obligations.
He had twice before determined to set aside enough money from former cash receipts to liquidate Jemima's debt once from the proceeds of Gadgem's gun and again from what Floyd paid him for the dogs but Todd had insisted with such vehemence that he needed it for the marketing, that he had let it go over. The one remaining object of real value was the famous loving-cup.
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