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Tea And Aestheticism

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Day
20
Month
April
Year
1882
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Public Domain
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To her feil the care of the tea table. Will you have a cup of tea?" she askd, with that far away look in her eyes, xpressive of anything but the adminstration of coarse ereature comforts. ?he robust barbarían assented. A cup of warm tea on a cold winter's afternoon was a pleasant prospect. Poetry ed the way to the table. Looking back over her giioulder as she went, and speaking to the youth in the corner, she said : "The Divine ethos !" As she spoke a radiant smile carne over her faca- a smile that had been hired to express spiritual illumination and the consciousness of priestesshood. "Do you take sugar?" she asked, sweetly, in preparation for her hospitality. The robust barbarían answered : "No ; no sugar, thank you." Poetry held the tea pot in her hand, poised in mid-air - the tea still unpoured. "The grand sublimity of Dante matched with the lovely tenderness of Petrucia," she said again over her shoulder to the youth in the corner. "Do you take sugar?" she then asked the robust barbarían kindly. '■No; no sugar, thank you," the latter answered. Poetry poured out the tea, During the process she said, with great sweetness and touching hospitality : "1 may give you sugar ?" "No ; no sugar, thank you," was the reply. Poetry took up the milk jug. "The many-sideduess of Shakespeare, and the perfect form of Goethe," she said again over her shoulder to the youth in the corner. To the robust barbarían, "Sugar ?" "ÏTo," said the robust barbarían quickly. Poetry poured out the milk. Still holding the cup, she looked back to the youth in the corner. "And add to this transcendent whole, the stately march of Spencer," she said. "This is what the stately poet should be - and this is what yon will some day be." On which she hastily shoveled in two spoonfuls of crushed sugar, and handed the cup to the robust barbarian with a charming smile. "You take sugar, I think?' she said very sweetly. "I hope I have made it sweet

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