"Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hotel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the eclairs stuffed with cream." - Graham Greene

Graham Greene: Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn...

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"Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hotel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the eclairs stuffed with cream." - Graham Greene

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