The great silver dish-covers were removed.

Amelia trembled in her place, for she was next to the awful Osborne, and alone on her side of the table--the gap being occasioned by the absence of George.
"Soup ?" says Mr.Osborne, clutching the ladle, fixing his eyes on her, in a sepulchral tone; and having helped her and the rest, did not speak for a while.
"Take Miss Sedley's plate away," at last he said.

"She can't eat the soup--no more can I.

It's beastly.

Take away the soup, Hicks, and to-morrow turn the cook out of the house, Jane." Having concluded his observations upon the soup, Mr.Osborne made a few curt remarks respecting the fish, also of a savage and satirical tendency, and cursed Billingsgate with an emphasis quite worthy of the place.