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These dishes they eat with a sort of cakes baked for the occasion, and having small lumps in the form of nipples, raised all over the surface."
The next day after our wedding, when our dinner was served up, which consisted of several dishes, I went into the room where the cloth was laid, and not finding my wife there, ordered her to be called. After making me wait a long time, she came. I dissembled my impatience, we sat down, and I began with the rice, which I took up as usual.
'We have now, said he, 'a splendid dinner before us. Which of all these dishes is unwholsome? The duke asserted, that he had observed the grandees of Spain diminished in their size by luxury.
A half-hour later a trim-looking boy presented himself at the sitting-room door. "Come in, Pat," invited the General, looking up from his paper with a smile. Pat smiled back again, but it was to Mrs. Brady that he turned as he entered the room. "Mrs. Brady, ma'am," he said, "the dishes are done and the kitchen made neat. Will you have me to be doin' something more for you this evenin'?"
Belle was already snatching the dishes, in spite of protests that there was some perfectly good eating which had not yet been eaten. "There come the boys now," announced Hazel. "They look sort of-gloomy." Cora glanced out of the window and saw Ed, Jack and Walter strolling along the path. She, too, thought they looked "gloomy," but it was not her practice to anticipate trouble.
So it was that this large family scattered each morning to their duties in the city ten miles away, and gathered at night, like chickens, to the home nest, which was mothered by the dearest little woman, who gave much of her time and strength to the preparation of favorite dishes with which to greet the wage-earners as they gathered at night around the home table.
And after the meal she insisted on completing the task by washing the dishes, putting all to rights in the camp; then mended a rent in his coat which he had got from a stumble in the dark the night before. He laughed, but her eyes shone. "Let me do as long as I can! ... There wouldn't you and I shed things! That's the way to live, to shed things."
'Tell me what thou hast for my guests, that I may know. Quoth I, 'I have five dishes of meat and ten fricasseed fowls and a roasted lamb. 'Bring them out to me, said he, 'that I may see them. So I had all this brought, and when he saw it, he said, 'There lacks the wine. 'I have a flagon or two in the house, answered I; and he said, 'Have it brought out. So I sent for it, and he exclaimed, 'God bless thee for a generous soul!
Then he broadened his bill of fare, and discussed it with such appreciation and animation, that the goodwife said to herself, "Good lack! how can he know so many dishes, and so fine ones withal? For these belong only upon the tables of the rich and great.
They might have replied that he had ordered all these things himself yesterday; but nobody took the trouble to contradict him any longer, so gradually the storm died away of its own accord and the old man, turning towards Maksi, tenderly invited him to partake of the disparaged dishes. "Come and eat with me, Maksi, my darling."
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