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He arrived in that town in the evening; and having previously learned that Doctor Danvers had been for some time in Chester, he at once sought him at his usual lodgings, and found the worthy old gentleman at his solitary "dish" of tea. "My dear Charles," said he, greeting his young friend with earnest warmth, "I am rejoiced beyond measure to see you.
The wolf swallowed down the pancakes in an instant, and said, "They make one want more," and went thither and tore the whole dish down so that it broke in pieces.
All I pretend is that the author doesn't see " But a dish was at this point passed over his shoulder, and we had to wait while he helped himself. "Doesn't see what?" my neighbour continued. "Doesn't see anything." "Dear me how very stupid!" "Not a bit," Vereker laughed main. "Nobody does." The lady on his further side appealed to him, and Miss Poyle sank back to myself.
In these days of more unspiritual health and coarser sense I am almost ashamed to say what pleasure I found in a dish of terrapin. The function of smell became for me a source both of annoyance and, later on, of pleasure. I smelt things no one else could, and more things than I now can.
As for the apple pudding, it had vanished altogether; and the dish was licked as clean as if Boxer, the yard dog, had been at it in his hungriest mood. "And my white tablecloth oh, my clean white tablecloth! What can have been done to it?" cried she in amazement.
The Emperor supped alone in his room with Marshal Bertrand, and their supper was by no means so splendid as ours, for it consisted only of a roast chicken and a dish of lentils; and yet I learned from an officer who fad attended him constantly since he left Fontainebleau, that his Majesty had eaten nothing since morning.
And some people don't know what a lot of prudence one needs to put by such a sum; for, after all, we're not savages, we have to allow ourselves a little enjoyment now and then, a good dish and a good bottle of wine.... Well, what with five months of enforced idleness, and the medicines, and the underdone meat that was ordered, we got to the end of our thousand francs; and now that it's all begun again we're not likely to taste any more bottled wine or roast mutton."
"Just seeing what we was failing to notice, that Mis' Bostick and the Deacon was in need of being tooken care of and, without a word to anybody, starting out with a covered dish and a napkin to do the providing for 'em.
A negligence deserving of the bastinado. The notion of any animal, bearing the name of fox, being served up with the trail, is too full-flavoured to be agreeable, and the dish might cause a revolt in the stomach of the least particular of Australian bush-rangers.
"Yes'm," cried Polly, picking up the tub, and giving two or three quick sops to the floor. "Here you are, Pussy," grasping Phronsie, crying as she was, and carrying her into the bedroom. "Oh, dear," wailed the child, still holding the wet dish towel; "I won't ever do it again, if you'll only let me do 'em all to-morrow."
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