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And so is a beef-stew without one. Now, if you're Jack Bevens' friend, I guess you're nearly right. There's a little lady a friend of mine in my room there at the end of the hall. Both of us are out of luck; and we had just potatoes and meat between us. They're stewing now. But it ain't got any soul. There's something lacking to it.
She came out with her nose and chin just a little sharper pointed. There was neither a potato nor an onion. Now, what kind of a beef-stew can you make out of simply beef? You can make oyster-soup without oysters, turtle-soup without turtles, coffee-cake without coffee, but you can't make beef-stew without potatoes and onions.
One hot, savory beef-stew for supper, a night's good sleep, and she would be fit in the morning to apply again for the tasks of Hercules, Joan of Arc, Una, Job, and Little-Red-Riding-Hood. In her room she got the granite-ware stew-pan out of the 2x4-foot china er I mean earthenware closet, and began to dig down in a rat's-nest of paper bags for the potatoes and onions.
When she came breathlessly into that beef-stew and paper-napkin restaurant at noon, Mother already had something of the busy, unself-conscious look of the woman who can compete with men. Her cheeks were flushed with walking. Her eyes were young. She glanced about the room, found Father, smiled quickly, and proceeded to order her own lunch in a business-like way.
"I've got a hot beef-stew with dumplings for supper, and I guess I'll make some chocolate instead of tea. That always seems to me to warm up anybody better." "Don't you want me to help?" said Maria. "No; everything is all done except to make the chocolate. I've had the stew on hours. A stew isn't good for a thing unless you have it on long enough to get the goodness out of the bone."
I could see Biddy waiting on the tables the smell that came out was the most delicious, yet tantalizing, odor of beef-stew it made me faint with hunger." His voice grew weak and his throat dry as he spoke. "When I did enter, Dan looked up and said respectfully, 'Good-evenin', Mr. Clement, and I felt so ashamed of my errand I turned to run.
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