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Burnit, how much political influence do you think you could swing?" "Frankly, I never thought of it," said Bobby surprised. "You belong to the Idlers' Club, you belong to the Traders' Club, to the Fish and Game, the Brassie, the Gourmet, and the Thespian Clubs. You are a member of the board of governors in three of these clubs, and are very popular in all of them.
A mandarin will "talk" it to you as a gourmet talks wine with us; dilate upon its quality and flavor, for the grades are innumerable, and taste and sip and sip and taste as your winebibber does and smack his lips too. We are told of teas so delicate in flavor that fifty miles of transportation spoils them.
You shall eat heartily and with zest, and you shall rise from the table refreshed, invigorated, and cheerful." "Just the very thing I want," exclaims the gourmet delightedly. "Tell me the price." "The price," answers Mrs. Nature, "is one long day's hard work." The customer's face falls; he handles nervously his heavy purse. "Cannot I pay for it in money?" he asks.
"How would you like to go to that church in the Forum?" said Preciozi. "I was going to propose that we should go to the hotel; it must be lunch-time." "Come along." Caesar had Marsala and Asti brought for the abbe, who was a gourmet. While Preciozi ate and drank with all his jaws, Caesar devoted himself to teasing him.
A young friend and protege of his, of considerable merit, M. Cavalcadour, happened to be disengaged through the lamented death of Lord Hauncher, with whom young Cavalcadour had made his debut as an artist. He had nothing to refuse to his master, Mirobolant, and would impress himself to be useful to a gourmet so distinguished as Monsieur Timmins.
Of this fault, I say, Godfrey was not guilty more, however, I must confess, from healthful drawings in other directions, than from philosophy or wisdom: he was a reader not in the sense of a man who derives intensest pleasure from the absorption of intellectual pabulum one not necessarily so superior as some imagine to the gourmet, or even the gourmand: in his reading Godfrey nourished certain of the higher tendencies of his nature read with a constant reference to his own views of life, and the confirmation, change, or enlargement of his theories of the same; but neither did he read with the highest aim of all the enlargement of reverence, obedience, and faith; for he had never turned his face full in the direction of infinite growth the primal end of a man's being, who is that he may return to the Father, gathering his truth as he goes.
He established libraries, clubs, swimming-pools, night-schools, lecture-courses. And all this time his business prospered. To the average man it is a miracle how any one individual could bear the heaviest business burdens and still do what Robert Owen did. Robert Owen had vitality plus: he was a gourmet for work.
He strove to maintain an attitude of fin gourmet, unable to refrain from comment upon the courses as they succeeded one another. Little Honora Gerard turned to Presley: "You know," she explained, "Papa has his own vineyards in southern France. He is so particular about his wines; turns up his nose at California wines. And I am to go there next summer.
It has for the gourmet of style an unending charm, the charm en sourdine of its creator, to whom a falling leaf or an empire in dissolution was of equal value. "His work," wrote Mr. Symons, "has the fatal evasiveness of those who shrink from remembering the one thing which they are unable to forget.
Montgomery smiled too, but a close observer would detect in him the yearnings of a young man from whose plain face the falling fruit is ever invisibly lifted. Bret looked round also, but his look was the indifferent stare of one to whom love has come often, and he glanced as idly at the picture as a worn-out gourmet would over the bill of fare of a table d'hote dinner.
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