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...ain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers. But the fare was of the most substantial k... ...s bringing his harpoon into breakfast with him, and using it there without ceremony; reaching over the table with it, to the imminent jeopardy of many... ...ce, I say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fi... ...beverage circulates. Seeing himself placed next the Priest, and noting the ceremony, and thinking himself — being Captain of a ship — as having plain ... ...nt craft in your day, for aught I know; — square toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter box galliots, and what not; but take my word for it,... ...is called the Seychelle ground in the Indian ocean, or V olcano Bay on the Japanese Coast; yet it did not follow, that were the Pequod to visit either... ...he open sea on planks, bits of wreck, oars, whale boats, canoes, blown off Japanese junks, and what not; that Beelzebub himself might climb up the sid... ...When Stubb reappeared, he came with a dark flask in one hand, and a sort of tea caddy in the other. The first contained strong spirits, and was handed t... ... moisture of my hair, while plunged in deep thought, after six cups of hot tea in my thin shingled attic, of an August noon; this seems an additional ...

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...ll were authentic and masterly. Another generation had fancied Chinese and Japanese por- celains: this Claes was eager after rare furniture, that one ... ...lis, and the parlor was filled by the children and the household. When the ceremony was about to begin, Ma- dame Claes, awakened by her confessor, loo... ...p to Marguerite and her sister and asked if all the persons invited to the ceremony and to the dinner had arrived; on receiving an affirmative reply, ...

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...e Illustrated London News with a fine drawing of Amy on her day out giving tea to the children at her home, in a hat with a big feather. “To-morrow” a... ...s on the cor- ners, containing the savings of his labours: some clothes of ceremony, sticks of incense, a little opium maybe, bits of name- less rubbi... ...ned in a plush-bottomed and gilt hammockchair near a tiled fireplace, with Japanese fans on the mantel and a glow of coals in the grate. Lifting her h...

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...e I shall have to introduce you to my wife!” CHAPTER III He performed this ceremony on the following day, when, by appointment, Christopher Newman wen... ...r belt?” Newman administered a vigorous slap to his knee. “I would marry a Japanese, if she pleased me,” he affirmed. “We had better confine ourselves... ...some day I shall have a chance to explain it.” “Be quiet, and ring for the tea,” said Madame de Cintre. The young man obeyed, and presently a servant ... ...me de Cintre. The young man obeyed, and presently a servant brought in the tea, placed the tray on a small table, and departed. Madame de Cintre, from... ...forehead to be kissed. Madame de Cintre saluted her, and continued to make tea. The new-comer was young and pretty, it seemed to Newman; she wore her ... ... was not sorry to do something that would show I was not performing a mere ceremony.” “Well, here I am as large as life,” said Newman, extend- ing his... ...ed at him, and white remained till her wedding-day. The evening before the ceremony she swooned away, and she spent the whole night in sobs. My mother...

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... the rows of hanging mugs and jugs, the towering edifices of jam-pots, the tea and dinner and toilet sets in that emporium, its brighter side of crick... ... marriage is considered the only one bind- ing by Catholics, and the civil ceremony is respected merely because the State has brute force behind it.” ... ... self-sacrifice this chivalrous cul- ture appears to have developed in the Japanese. These Samu- rai of mine were a sort of voluntary nobility who sup... ...e purpose and conscience it once embodied. Very much is to be said for the ceremony of Holy Com- munion or the Mass, for those whom accident or scrupl... ...er, is exactly what happens with public worship. They do get a King Log in ceremony. And if you deliberately overcome and suppress your perception of ...

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...t folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin’cured herrin’s and drinkin’ tea an’ lookin’ out to buy cheap jet would creed aught. I wonder masel’ w... ... home now, miss. My grand daughter doesn’t like to be kept waitin’ when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees, for there ... ... to wipe the slate clean and give us a fresh start. We had a capital ‘severe tea’ at Robin Hood’s Bay in a sweet little old fashioned inn, with a bow ... ...ask yours. When are you to be married, and where, and who is to perform the ceremony, and what are you to wear, and is it to be a public or pri vate... ...ed mouth grew to an open square, as in the pas sion masks of the Greeks and Japanese. If ever a face meant death, if looks could kill, we saw it at t...

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... the railway people to abandoned cantonments like Monghyr and Chunar; lost tea gardens Shillong way; villages where their fathers were large landholde... ...–horned masks, scowling masks, and masks of idiotic terror. In a corner, a Japanese warrior, mailed and plumed, menaced him with a halberd, and a scor... ...ere would be tales of holiday adventures to hear. Young Martin, son of the tea planter at Manipur, had boasted that he would go to war, with a rifle, ... ...useless things – such as devils and charms and the form and fashion of our tea drinkings in the monaster 175 Rudyard Kipling ies, and by what road w... ...abu strapped up his brass bound drug box, took his patent leather shoes of ceremony in one hand, a gay blue and white umbrella in the other, and set o...

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...is countrified trust in all comers, the of- ficer entered the yard without ceremony, and tethered his horse to the bars of the gate. While he was knot... ...he kneel- ing crowd within and without the cottage. During the con- soling ceremony of the Viaticum, celebrated for one who had never sinned, but to w... ...rent kinds were growing; the first row consisted of acacias, the second of Japanese varnish trees, and some young elms grew on the highest row of all.... ... (and it may safely be said that every one was satisfied) there was a holy ceremony such as was never seen under the canopy of heaven. Faith, France g... ...topped, rose to his feet, and said, “Before I begin my story, I will order tea. Jacquotte has never missed asking me if I will take it for these twelv... ... answer to his summons, Jacquotte appeared at once, and her master ordered tea. “You see, commandant, at night when every one is sleeping, I do not sl... ...of my troubles lies heavily on me, and then I try to forget them by taking tea. It produces a sort of nervous inebriation—a kind of slum- ber, without...

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...to but- ton up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scald- ing tea with our half frozen fingers. But the fare was of the most substantial ... ...s bringing his harpoon into breakfast with him, and using it there without ceremony; reaching over the table with it, to the imminent jeop- ardy of ma... ...ce, I say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating f... ...beverage circulates. Seeing himself placed next the Priest, and noting the ceremony, and thinking him- self—being Captain of a ship—as having plain pr... ...aint craft in your day, for aught I know;—square-toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter-box galliots, and what not; but take my word for it,... ...is called the Seychelle ground in the Indian ocean, or V olcano Bay on the Japanese Coast; yet it did not follow, that were the Pequod to visit either... ...the open sea on planks, bits of wreck, oars, whaleboats, canoes, blown-off Japanese junks, and what not; that Beelzebub himself might climb up the sid... ...hen Stubb reappeared, he came with a dark flask in one hand, and a sort of tea-caddy in the other. The first contained strong spirits, and was handed ... ... moisture of my hair, while plunged in deep thought, after six cups of hot tea in my thin shingled attic, of an August noon; this seems an additional ...

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...d a jug; next door in the dining-room, the carpenters camp on the floor, which is covered with their mosquito nets. Before the sun rises, at 5.45 or 5... ...ts first meeting; only twelve were present, but it went very well. I was not there, I had ridden down the night before after dinner on my endless busi... ...etter; the rest is null, and so far as disquisitory unsound. I am all right, but David Balfour is ailing; this came from my visit to the man-of-war, w... ...y Novels. ’After dinner, kava. Lady J. was served before me, and the King drank last; it was the least formal kava I ever saw in that house,—no names... ...nt by the wayside. A little further I pass two children coming up. ‘Love!’ say I; ‘are you two chiefly-proceeding inland?’ and they say, ‘Love! yes!’ ... ...ig guns have been sounding fur- ther along the coast. To-morrow morning early I am off up the coast myself. Therefore you must allow me to break off h... ... off in this spot, but I hear it roaring still in the nigh neighbourhood—and that moment, I was driven from the verandah by random rain drops, spittin...

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...e never said he had grown, but she told him he looked tall; and though the tea was a marvellous display it was never an obtrusive tea, it wasn’t poked... ...he went along the riverside he met a group of dusky stu- dents, Chinese or Japanese. Cambridge had abounded in Indians; and beneath that tall clock to... ...esterday; that done he reappeared at the bedside with a cup of admi- rable tea and one thin slice of bread-and-butter, reported on the day’s weather, ... ...ing in Thibet and Mr. Ritchie had made a Free Trade speech at Croydon. The Japanese had torpe- doed another Russian ironclad and a British cruiser was... ... was really an expe- rience, and one might not get tickets again. And then tea at Panton’s. It was rather fun at Panton’s…. Oh!—Weston Massinghay was ... ... of the earnest advice of several friends had insisted upon sharing in the ceremony, had suddenly covered his face with the sleeves of his surplice an... ...rica. White found a number of American press-cuttings of a vehemently anti-Japanese quality still awaiting digestion in a drawer, and it was clear to ...

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...e his aide-de-camp lately. “He took it out of my hands at once without any ceremony. “‘In the house! of course he is in the house,’ he said contemptuo... ...n in the royal forces, and a great Spanish flag. This stan- dard with much ceremony was hoisted over his house in the heart of the Arauco country. Sur... ... Anyway, that’s the answer they both made to Mrs. Colchester’s question at tea-time. “And didn’t she turn on Charley, with her voice 104 A Set of Six... ...g?” Saying these words, Lieut. D’Hubert opened with- 138 A Set of Six out ceremony the door of a room so comfortably and neatly ordered that only fro... ...a spot close under his breastbone, the very spot of the human body where a Japanese gentleman begins the operations of the Hara-kiri, which is a form ...

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...luminated. Instead of lights at every window, as is custom- ary on days of ceremony, he saw only a gray mass, which was veiled also by a cloud, which ... ... cemetery; the weather was mild, but dull, and in harmony with the funeral ceremony. Among the groups which flocked towards the family vault, Chateau-... ...Franz, hesitating. “Don’t be uneasy on that score,” replied Villefort; “no ceremony will be neglected in my house. Mademoiselle de Villefort may retir... ...said Madame Danglars, “leave music and compliments, and let us go and take tea.” “Come, Louise,” said Mademoiselle Danglars to her friend. They passed... ...elle Danglars to her friend. They passed into the next drawing-room, where tea was prepared. Just as they were beginning, in the English fashion, to l... ...ouse; the drawing-room was lighted up — they went in there. “You will make tea for us, Baptistin,” said the count. Baptistin left the room without wai... ...n he arranged all his beautiful Turkish arms, his fine En- glish guns, his Japanese china, his cups mounted in silver, his artis- tic bronzes by Feuch...

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... a Pompadour writing-table carved and gilt, brocade window curtains, and a Japanese bowl full of flowers on the round table among a selection of the n... ... housekeeping,” he said in conclusion. “You may give your friends cake and tea in the evening, for you must have some amusement. But I, who spent but ... ...vous, but which he ascribed to chronic indigestion. “Simply drink a cup of tea every day an hour after dinner, as the English do, and you will get ove... ...ng of Monsieur de la Baudraye and Dinah —the ladies now gathered round the tea-table, took the matter as a practical joke, and accused the Muse of San... ...ow to dock the tail of a passion.” Lousteau, who at first had been on some ceremony with 115 Balzac himself, by next day had come to the point of dre...

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.... He had made up his mind to sell the Fair Maid. III JUST AT THAT TIME the Japanese were casting far and wide for ships of European build, and he had ... ...ith attention, rubbed his shaved face with eau-de-Cologne, drank his early tea, went out to see his coolies at work: returned, looked through some pap... ...ssy front and high collar looked as if he had meant to preserve the decent ceremony of evening-dress, but had wound a thick crimson sash above his hip...

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... moving and delightful, it does not matter whether it is as “trivial” as a Japanese print of insects seen closely between grass stems, or as spacious ... ...y engaged to him you may ask him round here on Sunday afternoons, and have tea with him in the kitchen;” for my Euphemia has a motherly conception of ... ...tfully; “he is getting on.” And she sighed. That next Sunday as I drank my tea I interrogated my wife. “How is this Sunday different from all other Su... ...hen in a curve upward. * * * At half-past four his cousin made the tea, according to their invariable custom. But Wedderburn did not come in f... ...ll more depressed when they came into the shop. The clergyman, without any ceremony, asked the price of the crystal egg. Mr. Cave glanced nervously to... ...illy heads all round when they started rejoicing. Hanged if I like so much ceremony. “And then came the missionary. That missionary! What a Guy! Gummy... ...e was a man inside the god, and started out to see as much with tremendous ceremony. But wasn’t—he got sold again. I always did hate scenes and explan...

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..., a fact now universally recognised and advertised throughout America; and tea, ex- cept for a kind of green tea best used with discretion in punch, t... ...ds us as he talked—they both looked towards us—and after that, without the ceremony of a farewell, he disappeared, and we saw him no more. We waited f... ...tle difficult to understand. He says I am one of the samurai, which sounds Japanese, “but you will be degraded,” he says, with a gesture almost of des... ... prop- erty, and so forth. Possibly it might be advisable to have a little ceremony for each party, for each in the absence of the other, in which thi...

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...way bucks in cravats of cloth of gold; fine-looking Kentucky boat-men, and Japanese-look- ing Mississippi cotton-planters; Quakers in full drab, and U... ... some business-chat followed, then you forced me home with you to a family tea, and a family time we had. Have you forgotten about the urn, and what I... ...ou must recall my name—Ringman, John Ringman.” “Large loaf? Invited you to tea? Ringman? Ringman? Ring? Ring?” “Ah sir,” sadly smiling, don’t ring the... ...in the less faithless memories of others?” “But, of this friendly chat and tea, I have not the slightest—” “I see, I see; quite erased from the tablet... ...of sympathetic sociality as anything else. Presently, Orchis, without much ceremony, rose, and saying he must write a letter to his wife, bade his fri...

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...uld not utter a word. “To-day the preliminaries, to-morrow or next day the ceremony! You are in a hurry, captain!” “Danglars,” said Edmond, smiling, “... ...ulous, so great was the contrast between that happy moment and the painful ceremony he was now undergo- ing; so great was the contrast between the som... ... description we have twice given, entering the door, “what a great deal of ceremony! Is it the custom in Marseilles for sons to keep their fathers wai... ... of the substances it flavors. Tell me, the first time you tasted oysters, tea, porter, truffles, and sundry other dainties which you now adore, did y... ...ged apartment consisted of old cabinets, filled with Chinese porcelain and Japanese vases, Lucca della Robbia faience, and Palissy platters; of old ar... ...sto quickly appreciated all that Albert had collected here — old cabinets, Japanese porcelain, Oriental stuffs, Venetian glass, arms from all parts of... ... that code, but as regards the codes of all nations. The English, Turkish, Japanese, Hindu laws, are as familiar to me as the French laws, and thus I ...

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...e. Have you re- marked the card-tables and the consoles of the Empire, the tea-table supported by a lyre, and that species of sofa, of gnarled mahogan... ...ear 1827, had not yet been exposed and blasted by publicity. Minard bought tea and mixed it with tea-leaves already used; also he adulterated the elem... ...lier about four o’clock he was always requested to take “pot-luck” without ceremony. Mademoiselle Thuillier used to say:— “Then we know that he will g... ...to Monsieur and Madame Phellion; it is rather late; but there’s no need of ceremony with them. As for the Minards, I must throw a little dust in their... ...all have punch and cakes,” she said. “I have sent to the chemists for some tea. Heavens! if I 93 Balzac had only known the affair concerned an electi... ...ch improvised balls. Don’t talk to me of parties where everybody stands on ceremony.” This opinion, we may remark, is a standing axiom among the bourg... ...ed them- selves from walls of even tone; on a pier-table stood a very tall Japanese vase; before the windows the jardinieres were filled with lilium r...

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...se it does not powerfully resemble anybody else’s bake oven; and the Devil’s Tea Table—this latter a great smooth surfaced mass of rock, with diminis... ... river, beside a beflowered and garlanded precipice, and sufficiently like a tea table to answer for anybody, Devil or Christian. Away down the river ... ...pers. They always kept a picket watch outside the town—mere disci pline and ceremony—no occasion for it, no enemy around. Toward midnight I set out, ... ... out, clear cut against the sky, and as quaint of form as the apple trees in Japanese pictures—such was our course and the surroundings of it. There w... ...dered mild by a mixture of certain leaves, handed it to his guest. When this ceremony was concluded they began to speak. Life on the Mississippi Ma...

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...able degree of respect. All the customs, all the laws, all the details, pertaining to the student duel are quaint and naive. The grave, precise, and c... ... “Arrived on the field, my fellow-second and I paced off the thirty-five yards, and then drew lots for choice of position. This latter was but an orna... ...r spurious. Many people say that for a male person, bric-a-brac hunt- ing is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes, or Mark Twain 96 deco... ...t, at a height of eleven thousand feet. We passed the remaining hours of daylight—some basking in the sunshine, some sketching, some collecting; Hudso...

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...s, and cake, and once when we stopped a long time a porter got us a cup of tea. Then when we came to where they take the tickets, I think the man was ... ...though with a tremulous faintness in her voice, and she let Janet continue tea maker, scarcely seeming to hear or understand the casual remarks around... ..., or she won’t be able to do anything. Run away, Babie, they’ll be waiting tea for you. Allen’s there. He’ll take care of you.” “I want to give Mother... ...flowers, so often missed by tourists. In her mountain dress, all state and ceremony cast aside, Caroline rode, walked, and climbed like the jolly Moth... ...rincipal to a European college at Yokohama for the higher education of the Japanese. “Mother has not heard of it,” said Jock. “She need not till it is... ...rly in the next year, he was to go out with his Principal to confer on the Japanese the highest possible cul- ture in science and literature without a... ... deign to save, Yea, goddess, it is she, Kailyal—” “Are you learning Japanese?” asked Jock, advancing, so that Armine started like Ladurlad hims...

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... what out of sight in the pressure of new information and the apologetical ceremony of biographers. Mr. Carlyle made an inimitable bust of the poet’s ... ...y, had inscribed texts as to the binding nature of an oath; and surely, if ceremony can do aught to fix the wandering affec- tions, here were two peop... ...new period opens in the story of the poet’s random affections. He met at a tea party one Mrs. Agnes M’Lehose, a married woman of about his own age, wh... ...ncy for each other on the spot; Mrs. M’Lehose, in her turn, invited him to tea; but the poet, in his character of the Old Hawk, preferred a tete-a-tet... ...annot lay my hands on the passage in which he explains his abstinence from tea and coffee, but I am sure I have the meaning correctly. It is this; He ... ...his would be a loss not easy to exagger- ate. It is still wonderful to the Japanese how far he contrived to push these explorations; a cultured gentle... ...er another, and the main work still halted; but so long as he had a single Japanese to enlighten and prepare for the better future, he could still fee... ...y European creature the same face of awe and terror as to these courageous Japanese. The descent of Ulysses into hell is a parallel more near the case... ...irable match. The bride brought five hundred thousand francs of dowry. The ceremony was of the utmost magnifi- cence, Louis of Orleans figuring in cri...

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...an she tried to win a general sanction. She announced a soiree, with ices, tea, and cakes, a great innovation in a city where tea, as yet, was sold on... ...ove for a brother it is an element of great pleasure to be treated without ceremony. “Oh! what is it?” she cried as she saw tears shining in her broth... ...e in his mind. Grown stupid with dismay, he turned and fixed his eyes on a Japanese jar stand- ing on a begarlanded console table of the time of Louis... ...became so used to wearing finery that she trans- formed him into a kind of Japanese idol. Their understand- ing was perfect. In season and out of seas...

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...e threw himself between the angry, touching his hat the while with all the ceremony of an usher: he protected the birds from everybody but himself, se... ...gineers to the Indian, the 59 Memories and Portraits New Zealand, and the Japanese Lighthouse Boards, so that Edinburgh was a world centre for that b... ...ful nurse. The canine conscience did not solve the problem with a pound of tea at Christmas. No longer content to pay a flying visit, it was the whole...

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...ou—” he faltered out. “What?” said Mme. Camusot. “Oh! but there need be no ceremony between us; we know each other well enough to wash our linen among... ...een reopened, and we are to dine with the Councillor. We need not stand on ceremony at all. Do just as if you were at home. I have no secrets from you... ...shop while her brother was away. A big and very ugly woman, dressed like a Japanese idol, a half-idiotic creature with a vague, staring gaze she would... ...ed as provost marshal flung open the door of the sanctuary with no further ceremony than the remark, “It’s Mme. Cibot.—Come in, there’s nobody here.” ... ...any sofa covered with yellow-flowered Utrecht velvet, four easy- chairs, a tea-table, a console, and half-a-dozen chairs, all the property of the dece... ...hyard cough,” and had recourse to an earthen- ware basin half full of herb tea, which he drained. “But for Poulain, my dear madame, I should have been... ...ibly charming portress. He had watched the little tailor drinking his herb-tea, and a thought struck him. He would convert the ailment into mortal sic...

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...r them. And as to the foregathering, ask Father Roubeau here: he performed the ceremony.” The Jesuit took the pipe from his lips, but could only expre... ...ns, but was aroused by Ruth filling his cup. “Thank God, we ’ve got slathers of tea! I ’ve seen it growing, down in Tennessee. What would n’t I give fo... ...eir flapjacks and soaked their crusts in the rich, white syrup. Then coffee and tea, and especially the dried fruits, made disastrous inroads upon it. ... ...own story of the home cabin, the roaring Yukon stove, and the steaming pots of tea. But the home cabin had been invaded. Three score huskies chorused ... ...nds of the earth, and had neither gods nor homes, sailing under the flag of the Japanese. And with them I went to the rich beaches of Copper Island, wh...

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...inavian, the dark and brilliant south Italian, the noble Roman, the dainty Japanese—to name no others. Each of these types has its peculiar and incomm... ... there is an inherited “drink craving” any more than there is an inherited tea craving or an inherited morphia craving. In the first place I would pro... ...ides- maids, and upwards of thirty deaf and dumb friends were present. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. Payne, of the Deaf and Dumb Church, L...