Instead of the traditional long rectangular table with the host seated at its head, Qin Shang preferred a huge circular table with the guests comfortably spaced around the outer circumference. Flatware was optional-chopsticks for Oriental guests, gold-plated utensils for those used to Western tastes. After cocktails, they gathered in the great hall of the temple that served as a dining room and sat in massive chairs exotically carved with dragon legs and armrests.
Women, to protect their hairstyles, sat under artistically dyed silk umbrellas. Guests gathered in an immense antechamber that was a lush tropical garden with waterfalls, reflection ponds filled with vividly colored carp and a light perfumed mist that filtered from jets in the ceiling. Such a little life.ĭinners were always formal. He chuckled.He is a baby, really, compared to us. Not so loud, sweetie, Dowd said, as if pained by her volume.You'll wake the baby. Sprawled on a tapestried directoire daybed, I set at once to reading David's manuscripts, only now and then breaking off to walk about the silent parlour and bedroom, or to open a real French window, with its encrusted oval knob, and gaze out at the back garden of the hotel, so very formal and quiet and proud.
The Allies will be made fully aware of how blessed we are with Talent. Then his mental tone abruptly altered to one of great pride and dignity. Jeff Raven chuckled over his daughter's sardonic remark. Larak held Afra's glance, and then sighed.
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