Anyway, the sideboard is really too small for it it sticks way out." Its diameter or circumference or something is two and a half feet-or perhaps it's three and a half. That bowl came, and of course it's beautiful. I thought he was going to deed me a haunted house or something that would explode when you opened it. "You remember young Carleton Canby? Well, he was very attentive at one time, and the night I told him I was going to marry Harold, seven years ago in ninety–two, he drew himself way up and said: 'Evylyn, I'm going to give a present that's as hard as you are and as beautiful and as empty and as easy to see through.' He frightened me a little-his eyes were so black. Piper's mouth forming the words was a vivid rose petal. Fairboalt's lingering reservations about the Freddy Gedney story quite vanished. "I love the dining–room most," she said, "all that marvellous china, and that huge cut–glass bowl." Fairboalt was at that ripe age where she distrusted all beautiful women. Piper five afternoons a week for the past six months. Freddy Gedney had been dropping in on Mrs. Fairboalt would have liked to remark that she didn't believe this at all and couldn't see how she'd be expected to-it was all over town that Mr. I'm almost always alone in the afternoon." Harold Piper, lights appearing in her young, dark eyes "and you must come often. Roger Fairboalt came to see the beautiful Mrs.
It was well past its first glory on the day the curious Mrs. But by the time all this had happened the cut–glass age was over, anyway. The bonbon dish lost its little handle and became a pin–tray upstairs a promenading cat knocked the little bowl off the sideboard, and the hired girl chipped the middle–sized one with the sugar–dish then the wine–glasses succumbed to leg fractures, and even the dinner–glasses disappeared one by one like the ten little niggers, the last one ending up, scarred and maimed as a tooth–brush holder among other shabby genteels on the bathroom shelf. In the cut–glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank–you notes for all sorts of cut–glass presents-punch–bowls, finger–bowls, dinner–glasses, wine–glasses, ice–cream dishes, bonbon dishes, decanters, and vases-for, though cut glass was nothing new in the nineties, it was then especially busy reflecting the dazzling light of fashion from the Back Bay to the fastnesses of the Middle West.Īfter the wedding the punch–bowls were arranged in the sideboard with the big bowl in the centre the glasses were set up in the china–closet the candlesticks were put at both ends of things-and then the struggle for existence began. There was a rough stone age and a smooth stone age and a bronze age, and many years afterward a cut–glass age.
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