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He found himself unpleasantly interested to know. The tenderest selle d'agneau au lait and the youngest green peas made their appearance, and again the maitre d'hotel returned, having mixed the salad. Paul noticed with all these things the lady ate but a small portion of each.
His name, pronounced in such a manner, made him start, and by a vigorous effort of his gullet he absorbed the whole mouthful. "Sire," replied Porthos, in a stifled voice, but sufficiently intelligible, nevertheless. "Let those filets d'agneau be handed to Monsieur du Vallon," said the king; "do you like brown meats, M. du Vallon?" "Sire, I like everything," replied Porthos.
Good for you," cheered the self-made Barbarians, and drank success to the absent disseminator of hardware. With much loud talk of this unedifying character the dinner progressed to an end; through selle d'agneau, floated in '84 champagne, terrapin convoyed by a special Madeira of 1850, and canvas-back duck with Romanee Conti, 1865, to a triumphant finale of Turkish coffee and 1811 brandy.
Ha! this is the "carte." "Allons faire petit souper." "Cotelettes d'Agneau." "Maionnaise d'homard." "Perdreaux rouges aux truffes mark that, aux truffes." "Gelee au maraschin." "And the wine, sir," said the waiter, with a look of approval at my selection, "Champagne no other wine, sir?" "No," said I, "Champagne only.
Gigot de mouton braise, aux legumes 1 0 Tendons de mouton grilles 0 18 Tendons de mouton aux petits pois 1 5 Hachi de mouton a la Portugaise 1 0 2 Cotelettes de mouton a la minute 1 5 2 Cotelettes de mouton aux racines 1 5 2 Cotelettes de mouton au naturel 0 18 2 Cotelettes de pre 1 0 Epigramme d'agneau 2 Cotelettes d'agneau au naturel Tendons d'agneau aux pointes d'asperges Tendons d'agneau aux petits pois Blanquette d'agneau Filet de chevreuil 1 5 Cotelette de chevreuil Queue de mouton a la puree 1 5 Queue de mouton a l'oseille ou a la chicoree 1 5
Two of these pensive wanderers were Marcia Van Clupp and Lord Algernon Masherville, and Lord Algy was in a curiously sentimental frame of mind, and weak withal, "comme une petite queue d'agneau afflige" He had taken a good deal of soda and brandy for his bilious headache, and, physically, he was much better, but mentally he was not quite his ordinary self.
She had anticipated entertaining the bridegroom-elect at luncheon, and had ordered lobster-cream and an epigramme d'agneau a la Russe as suitable delicacies; she expected confidential consultation and delightful plans; she had even speculated on so managing that the double event: Angela Bradley's marriage with Errington and Katherine's with Lord de Burgh, might come off on the same day, even in the same church: that would be a culmination of excitement!
The soup is liquified bliss; the cotelettes d'agneau are cotelettes de bonheur; and as for that broad dish of Syrian larks Heaven forgive us the regret, that more songs had not been silenced for our sake! The meal is all nectar and ambrosia, and now, filled and contented, we subside into sleep on comfortable couches. So closes the first day of our incarceration.
Rebener, that you allow me to send you up a nice little lunch, some melon, say, a salmon mayonnaise or a filet du sole au vin blanc and a noisette d'agneau and a nice little sweet, and you must try a bottle of our Steinberger Auslese '84. "And Smith," he turned to the humbler agent, "you had better get in touch with 4782, who is reporting to His Royal Highness every hour.
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