The dining-room was small and the greater part of it was filled by an enormous table. On the walls were engravings of scenes from the Bible and illuminated texts.
'Missionaries always have large dining-tables,' Waddington explained. 'They get so much a year more for every child they have and they buy their tables when they marry so that there shall be plenty of room for little strangers.'
W.S. Maugham, The painted veil (1925), 77-78
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