mesa de noite

EN Could they have let the Boeuf en Daube overboil, she wondered? pray heaven not! when the great clangour of the gong announced solemnly, authoritatively, that all those scattered about, in attics, in bedrooms, on little perches of their own, reading, writing, putting the last smooth to their hair, or fastening dresses, must leave all that, and the little odds and ends on their washing-tables and dressing-tables and the novels on the bed-tables, and the diaries which were so private, and assemble in the dining-room for dinner.
GL ¿Se cadra deixaran que o Boeuf en Daube se torrase de máis?, preguntouse. ¡Queira o ceo que non! E, daquela, o estrondo do gong anunciou solemnemente, con autoridade, que tódolos que estaban espallados polos áticos, os dormitorios, nos seus propios e pequenos cubís, lendo, escribindo, dándolle o derradeiro retoque ó pelo ou abotoando o vestido, tiñan que deixalo todo, os pequenos trastes no lavabo e no toucador, as novelas nas mesas de noite, e os diarios, que eran tan confidenciais, e xuntárense no comedor para cear.
Fonte: CAR (1211)

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