Back | Tea ready, I was going to approach the table; but she desired me to sit still, quite in her old peremptory tones. I must be served at the fireside, she said; and she placed before me a little round stand with my cup and a plate of toast, absolutely as she used to accommodate me with some privately purloined dainty on a nursery chair: and I smiled and obeyed her as in bygone days. |
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Front | Una vez preparado el té, me dispuse a sentarme a la mesa, pero ella, con el tono autoritario de los años antiguos, me conminó a instalarme junto a la lumbre y colocó ante mí una mesita redonda en la que puso el servicio, exactamente como en mi infancia. Y, como en mi infancia también, la obedecí, sonriendo. |
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