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...uppermost. There are so many girls nowadays who are quite unpresentable at tea, with their un- trimmed laughs, their awful dispositions of their legs ... ...te in her greeting to Ann Veronica. Then Ann Veronica passed on toward the tea in the garden, which was dotted with the elite of Morningside Park soci... ...Park society , and there she was pounced upon by Lady Palsworthy and given tea and led about. Across the lawn and hovering indecisively, Ann Veronica ... ...suppressed curiosity for Alice’s wedding. Her impressions of this cardinal ceremony were rich and confused, complicated by a quite transitory passion ... ...ual pews, and a wide margin of hassocky emptiness in- tervened between the ceremony and the walls. Ann Veronica had a number of fragmentary impression... ...nless she was saved from drowning by an unmar- ried man, in which case the ceremony is unavoidable, or to- tally destitute of under-clothing, and so d... ...inherited an authoritative attitude upon bac- teriology from his father; a Japanese student of unassuming manners who drew beautifully and had an impe... ...e Russell-like hair became anx- ious to distinguish himself by telling the Japanese student that Western art was symmetrical and Eastern art asymmetri... ... how it takes me. Why should WE hoard? We aren’t going out presently, like Japanese lanterns in a gale. It’s the poor dears who do, who know they will...

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...ight bustle about in the morning before dinner, and in the afternoon after tea and forget that huge dark cloud of insol- vency that gathered and sprea... ...try and show devotions by his manner of passing the bread and margarine at tea. There was a very fair-haired, fair-skinned apprentice in the adjacent ... ...s to say good-by. When Mr. Polly went upstairs for margarine and bread and tea, he slipped on into the dormitory at once to see what was happening fur... ... Ham and chicken’s very suitable. You don’t want a lot of cooking with the ceremony coming into the middle of it. I wonder who Alfred ought to invite,... ...and the gloves and whiskey in the front room, and while we were all at the ceremony, Bessie could bring it all into the front room on a tray and put i... ...ke a glass of sherry and a biscuit,” said Mrs. Johnson. “We don’t stand on ceremony,” and a 50 The History of Mr. Polly decanter appeared in the plac... ...….” “I’m going,” said Mr. Polly suddenly, releasing himself from the Anglo-Japanese grip and holding out his hands for his bicycle. “Teach you (kik) t...

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...s, and live in another world, from another centre, they’d—’ ‘You want your tea, don’t you,’ said Hermione, turning to Ursula with a gracious kindlines... ...ld. ‘But third’ll be all right. There’s a restaurant car, we can have some tea.’ The two men looked at the station clock, having nothing further to sa... ...he Hindus down from Oxford, perhaps. But no, he was the man-servant. ‘Make tea, Hasan,’ said Halliday. ‘There is a room for me?’ said Birkin. To both ... ...drawing-room, as if they were one family, easily, without any attention to ceremony. Fraulein handed the coffee, everybody smoked cigarettes, or else ... ...ring the knocking of oars. She looked round. There was a boat with a gaudy Japanese parasol, and a man in white, rowing. The woman was Hermione, and t... ...Birkin, as if looking for something from the other man. ‘I used to do some Japanese wrestling,’ said Birkin. ‘A Jap lived in the same house with me in... ...blossoms she saw, the more fascinated she became with her little vision of ceremony, and the more consumedly shy and self-conscious she grew, till she...

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...very clearly revealed to her, turn a prairie town into Georgian houses and Japanese bungalows. The next day in library class she had to read a theme o... .... As you do, of course.” Carol looked respectable and thought about having tea. “And that’s all you need teach in Sunday School. It’s the personal inf... ... Let’s make Go- pher Prairie rock to its foundations: let’s have afternoon tea instead of afternoon coffee.” The delighted Bea helped her bring out th... ...wheel, and to set it with an embroidered lunch-cloth, and the mauve-glazed Japanese tea-set which she had brought from St. Paul. Miss Sherwin confided... ...d to set it with an embroidered lunch-cloth, and the mauve-glazed Japanese tea-set which she had brought from St. Paul. Miss Sherwin confided her late... ..., thrown it into a long room on which she lavished yellow and deep blue; a Japanese obi with an intricacy of gold thread on stiff ultramarine tis- sue... ...er; that the capitalistic system of distri- bution and the Baptist wedding-ceremony were not known in the Garden of Eden; that mushrooms are as edible... ...o. Afraid. “That man in there, snoring in stale air, my husband? Could any ceremony make him my husband? “No. I don’t want to hurt him. I want to love...

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...g the hatch cover seemed perplexed, puz zled no doubt by the briefness of the ceremony. He burst upon them in a fury. “Lift up that end there, damn y... ...he table in the cabin, with rough weather trays in place, and then carried the tea and cooked food down from the galley. In this connection cannot for... ...oused,” was Mr. Mugridge’s parting injunction, as I left the galley with a big tea pot in one hand, and in the hollow of the other arm several loaves ... ...well right if yer neck was broke!” I managed to struggle to my feet. The great tea pot was still in my hand. I limped to the galley and handed it to h... ...gshell. An’ wasn’t there the Governor of Kura Island, an’ the Chief iv Police, Japanese gentlemen, sir, an’ didn’t they come aboard the Ghost as his g... ...tween them and liberty. Beyond its foaming base lay the pretty villages of the Japanese colonists, and smiling valleys which penetrated deep into the ...

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...when he left the house for the Reform Club—all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thir... ...orsel of Cheshire cheese, the whole being washed down with several cups of tea, for which the Reform is famous. He rose at thirteen minutes to 11 Jul... ... a hundred paces away; and the strange figures who performed the religious ceremony were easily distinguished through the branches. First came the pri... ...e of the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas— was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing about seventeen... ...eamer which would leave on the 6th of November for Yokohama, the principal Japanese port. The Rangoon had a large quota of passengers, many of whom di... ...Verne palanquins and other modes of conveyance, and the groups of Chinese, Japanese, and Europeans who passed to and fro in the streets. Hong Kong see... ...Japanese ornaments, the restaurants decked with streamers and banners, the tea-houses, where the odorous beverage was being drunk with saki, a liquor ... ...to engage the services of the Reverend Samuel Wilson in a certain marriage ceremony, which was to take place the next day. Passepartout went on his er...

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...the landlord said. They brought a great old japanned screen, with natives (Japanese, I suppose) engaged in a variety of idiotic pursuits all over it; ... ...er, I could not make this supply hold out until night; it was exhausted by tea-time. Being then entirely cast upon my own resources, I got through an ... ...with nothing in it; but the waiter had a fixed idea that it was a point of ceremony at every meal to put the pie on the table. After some days I tried... ...can, and forget what you can’t: where I should again like to be boiling my tea in a pocket-handkerchief dumpling, for want of a tea- pot. So to the ol...

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... a walk. She would be in presently and would come upstairs to have nursery tea with him. And he seemed to feel her kiss on his lips. It was not true t... ...,” he answered firmly . “ Well, I shall look at them when you come down to tea,” said Mrs. Carey . She knew nothing about children. After it was settl... ...ur out the water himself. Then she went down- stairs and rang the bell for tea. The dining-room, large and well-proportioned, had windows on two sides... ...stable) that the choir he led was the best in Kent; and when there was any ceremony , such as a visit from the Bishop for confirmation or from the Rur... ...drawing-room for his nap—all the actions of his life were con- ducted with ceremony—and Mrs. Carey was about to go upstairs, Philip asked: “What shall... ... headmas- ter had said, and presently, his mind taken up entirely with the ceremony that was before him, a mystical rapture seized him. His spirit see... ... strong with the English and his compatriots, and the discerning collected Japanese prints. The old masters were tested by new standards. The esteem i... ...oked at the branches of a tree silhouetted against the sky , it was like a Japanese print; and he found a continual magic in the beautiful Thames with... ...gs; and in the wharfs and storehouses there was the severity of grace of a Japanese print. They went further down; and the splendid channel, a symbol ...

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...ld Grannis knew that at quarter of five precisely Miss Baker made a cup of tea over the oil stove on the stand between the bureau and the window. Miss... ...n inches. Old Grannis went back to his binding. Miss Baker brewed a cup of tea to quiet her nerves. Each tried to regain their composure, but in vain.... ...vening had been in their lives! Late as it was, Miss Baker brewed a cup of tea and sat down in her rocking chair close to the partition; she rocked ge... ...ted beyond measure at the pros- pect of acting the part of best man in the ceremony. This wedding in which he was to figure filled his mind with vague... ... wall-paper was admirable— 111 Frank Norris hundreds and hundreds of tiny Japanese mandarins, all identically alike, helping hundreds of almond-eyed ... ...ly from side to side with a continued and maniacal motion. All at once the ceremony was over before any one ex- pected it. The guests kept their posit... ...s McT eague as well—felt that there was a certain inadequateness about the ceremony. Was that all there was to it? Did just those few muttered phrases... ...ed dressmaker standing on the thresh- old, carrying a cup of tea on a tiny Japanese tray. She held it toward him. “I was making some tea,” she said, “...

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...s! and never met her: I say, could you consent to be tied—I admit the vow, ceremony, so forth-tied to—I was barely twenty-one: I put it to you, Fenell... ...ble seats in it, and a shelter, and a ready supply of good cheap coffee or tea. Tobacco? why not rolls of honest to- bacco! nothing so much soothes th... ...ntil—until it is over?’ ‘We enter this place, my love, without any sort of ceremony. We live there independently, and we can we have quarters there fo... ...vour of wine— good wine, in moderation; just as Miss Graves for the cup of tea—not so thoughtfully stipulating that it should be good and not too copi... ...from a Voice, when at his bed or bunk-side, about to perform the beautiful ceremony of undressing: and the Rev. gentleman was to lie down in his full ... ...he same so far, except ghosts; she will not have them; except after strong tea, they come, she says, come 137 George Meredith to her bed. She is fool... ...iotism urging him to pay his visit of expo- sition and invitation from the Japanese Court to the distin- guished Doctor of Divinity Dr. Bouthoin. The ... ...arms, in- trigues—also a small matter) to obtain the first audience of the Japanese erudites. Delphica, with each of the rivals in turn, is very prett... ...l Delphica. They listened plac- idly to a discourse upon her performances, Japanese to their understandings. At New York, behold, another adventurous ...

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...rty was over. I tried to conceal my embarrassment by handing round cups of tea and rather ill-cut bread-and- butter. I wanted no one to take notice of... ... one day that I met Charles Strickland’s wife. Miss Waterford was giving a tea-party, and her small room was more than usually full. Everyone seemed t... ...en to pleasant little luncheons at her flat, and to rather more formidable tea-parties. We took a fancy to one another . I was very young, and perhaps... ...cous voice, and some list- lessly read. They are French. Italian, Spanish, Japanese, coloured; some are fat and some are thin; and under the thick pai... ...ey come to the islands. Ata is a sensible girl, and she doesn’t expect any ceremony before the Mayor. She’s a Protestant, and you know they don’t look... ... was not what he expected. He was seized with horror. “ Y ou enter without ceremony ,” said Strickland. “What can I do for you?” The doctor recovered ...

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... the nineteenth cen- tury could sit at his breakfast-table, decide between tea from Ceylon or coffee from Brazil, devour an egg from France with some ... ...Ardennes. There was the report of an attack upon Russia by the Chinese and Japanese, and of some huge revolutionary outbreak in America. The weather w... ...y nearly got San Francisco.’ ‘I hadn’t heard, sir.’ ‘The Americans ran the Japanese aeroplane down into the sea and there the bomb got busted.’ ‘Under... ...ous sentiment, most amiably and lightly expressed. ‘We haven’t to stand on ceremony,’ said the king, ‘we have to govern the world. We have always pret... ... the ninety-three, and King Egbert found himself between a pleasant little Japanese stranger in spectacles and his cousin of Central Europe, and oppos... ...mong his artificial furs and pillows for two hours. Then he awoke and some tea was brought to him, and he attended to a small difficulty in connection...

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...eeling lonely.” She sat down near the fire, said: “Nastasia will bring the tea presently,” and signed to him to return to his armchair, adding: “I see... ...m.” The terms were hardly adequate; she might have spoken in that way of a tea-party at the dear old Miss Lannings’. “The van der Luydens,” said Arche... ... and they collapsed. He laughed, and sacrificed them. Nastasia brought the tea, with handleless Japanese cups and little covered dishes, placing the t... ...He laughed, and sacrificed them. Nastasia brought the tea, with handleless Japanese cups and little covered dishes, placing the tray on a low table. “... ...to mount guard over the invisible deity of “Good Form” who presided at the ceremony. Archer wondered how many flaws Lefferts’s keen eyes would discove... ...n spite of her physical disabilities, had resolved on being present at the ceremony; and the idea was so much in keeping with her sporting character t... ... was being sung for the first time that win- ter. Nothing was done without ceremony under the van der Luyden roof, and though there were but four gues...

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...it, and buck- les, all the metal work, of virgin silver. Well, there was a ceremony in the Monterey Mission, and Esteban, in the name of his brother, ... ...ission garden near to the aged, grey sun dial. Vanamee stood by during the ceremony, but half conscious of what was going forward. At the last moment ... .... Some were balanced on the topmost rounds of ladders, hanging festoons of Japanese lanterns from tree to tree, and all across the front of the barn i... ...ch, look- ing about him to see if everything was in order. The festoons of Japanese lanterns in and around the, barn were not yet lighted, but some ha... ...uses one could see a group of men on step-ladders lighting the festoons of Japanese lanterns. In the darkness, only their faces appeared here and ther... ...ends proceeded to the Yosemite bar, pledg- ing each other with punctilious ceremony. Dyke, how- ever, was a strictly temperate man. His life on the en...

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...lives like a bird. Two yards from his parish, in the event of an important ceremony, he can yield his place to an assistant, and betake himself to cha... ...iety the necessary authority to import later into his province a taste for tea and silver of an English fashion, and to obtain the right of despising ... ...us to try and find out…. These cigars are excellent. Give your friend some tea. Do you know, Paul, I live a brute’s life? It should be time to choose ... ...ee, here they are!” she said, proceeding to take some papers out of a tall Japanese vase. She offered De Marsay some letters, in which the young man s...

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... a certainly empty house, to his fancy. He fed on a snack of cold meat and tea, standing, and set forth, clearly directed, ‘if he kept a sharp eye ope... ...ssex to see ghosts would be an odd experience; but an undigested dinner of tea is the very grandmother of ghosts; and he accused it of con- fusing him... ...hat her mistress had not expected visitors: her mistress had noth- ing but tea and bread and butter to offer him. Danvers ut- tered no complaint of he... ...were married,’ said Emma. ‘Nor I, dear; proving that the bar to it was the ceremony,’ said Diana. She promised to remain at Copsley three days. ‘Then ... ... on a visit a week before the end of the month, that she might join in the ceremony of a wedding ‘likely to be the grandest of our time.’ Pitiful thou... ...say with whom: all the world was there; and he rap- turously described the ceremony, stating that it set women weeping and caused him to behave like a... ...ed, small bronzes, antiques, ivory junks, quaint ivory figures Chinese and Japanese, bits of porcelain, silver incense-urns, dozens of dainty sundries...

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...at I have been confirmed to-day, and I dare say you all thought of me. The ceremony was performed by the Bishop of Lincoln, and I hope that I have tru... ...of the Bishop of New Zealand, on whom he spoke for a long-while. The whole ceremony was performed with the greatest decorum, and in the retiring and c... ... be impressed with a proper feeling of the holiness and seriousness of the ceremony. After all the boys had been confirmed about seven other people we... ...l my clothes to Geneva, so I put on a suit of the landlord’s, and had some tea, and at 11 42 Life of John Coleridge Patteson P .M. went to bed, not f... ...d a great happiness it is to have such a privilege and so on. Came back to tea, very pleasant. After tea made Eota, and Sydney, a young- man who knows... ... awake and at our work! I turn out at 6.45, and think of them at dinner or tea; at 10, I think of them at evening prayers; and by my own bed-time they... ...ghts my stephanotis, which now climbs over half my ve- randah. I have such Japanese lilies making ready to put forth 615 Yo n g e their splendours. T... ...old cottage things won’t grow well. Scarlet pas- sion flowers and splendid Japanese lilies of perfect white or pink or spotted. The golden one I have ...

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...or-General in his bluff, sen- sible, army way, and so left it open for the Japanese to se- cure, as they subsequently did, the priority in this side o... ...ust flying and Filmer and flying and parachutes and aerial tactics and the Japanese Government and Filmer and again flying, shouldered the war in Yunn... ...fing? I glance judiciously and catch him biting at a round of hot buttered tea-cake, with his eyes on me. Confound him!—with his eyes on me! That sett... ... Poor old Pyecraft! He has just gonged, no doubt to order another buttered tea-cake! He came to the actual thing one day. “Our Pharmaco- poeia,” he sa... .... There he sits behind me now, stuffing— as I live!—a third go of buttered tea-cake. And no one in the whole world knows—except his housekeeper and me... ... heads all round when they started rejoicing. I’m hanged if I like so much ceremony. “And then came the missionary. That missionary! It was in the aft... ...e was a man inside the god, and started out to see as much with tremendous ceremony. But there wasn’t—he got sold again. I always did hate scenes and ...

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...ll object that there was no clergyman or priest of any kind to perform the ceremony; nor any pen and ink, or paper, to write down a contract of marria... ...ction again, I repeating everything to them in English; and thus ended the ceremony . I think it was the most pleasant and agreeable day to me that ev... ... all be seized as pirates, I can assure you, and executed with very little ceremony; for you know merchant ships show but little law to pirates if the... ...him we would sell our cargo and purchase China wares, calicoes, raw silks, tea, wrought silks, &c.; and so we would return by the same course we came.... ... goods which they had bought in China, and were not gone away, having some Japanese merchants on shore. The first thing our old Portuguese pilot did f... ...aded me from it, repre- senting the dangers, as well of the seas as of the Japanese, who are a false, cruel, and treacherous people; likewise those of... ... about three thousand five hundred pounds ster- ling; which, together with tea and some fine calicoes, and three camels’ loads of nutmegs and cloves, ... ...ear’s flesh, but we did not much care for the last. We had a good stock of tea, with which we treated our friends, and we lived cheerfully and well, a...

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...e, feeling herself beloved and admired by her husband, treated him without ceremony; she put her- self above conjugal laws and the rules of private co... ...ays, the guests being expected to pay their return visit and take a cup of tea on the following Wednesday. She chose her guests cleverly among influen... ...ucracy day for the last month, and returned of his own accord for a cup of tea on Wednesdays. Within a few days Madame Rabourdin, having watched him n... ...china services of a composite order; 42 Bureaucracy to wit, a magnificent Japanese dessert set, and all the rest porcelains of various makes, unmatch... ...ound a home. The little Baudoyer girl was already trained to bring him his tea and to take his hat. On the evening of which we write, Monsieur Saillar...