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Dinner discussed, and its etceteras having been partaken, in full consciousness of the comforts which surrounded me, contrasted with the discomforts, &c. from which I had escaped, I sank into an agreeable reverie; and during a vision, I must not call it a doze, composed of port wine and walnuts the invigorating beams of Wallsend coal an occasional fancied jolt of the coach the three mouthfuls of dinner, by the name, I had gotten at Oxford and the escape of my one neck, when, goose as I was, I presented it where two seemed to be an essential by the sign of the habitation and the dangers of the gate, I was aroused by a crash, something like the noise of the machine which accompanies the falling of an avalanche or a castle, or some such direful affair at "Astley's;" and starting up, I thought, had the coach upset? but, much to my gratification, found myself a safe "inside."
But, soon regaining her usual composure, she led the way to the dinner-table, where the meal that followed was partaken much as the one that preceded it, in silence and mutual constraint, which was only relieved by an occasional forced, commonplace remark.
Before to-morrow my uncle shall be made acquainted with what has just passed, and the character of the man who has partaken so often of his hospitality, and been ever treated with kind attention, he has yet to learn how these courtesies have been returned," and sweeping past him with a look of supreme contempt, Edith was about to pass on.
Fresh fruits and vegetables should be partaken of daily. They are the rejuvenators and purifiers. The cereal foods should be as near natural as possible. The bread should be made of whole wheat flour mostly. If rice is eaten it should be unpolished. Refined sugar should be taken in moderation, if at all. The potatoes are best baked. Pure milk is as good for the mother as it is for the child.
"Now, out upon thee for a learned fool! and I myself am no better for expecting an oracle from such a log," said the Lady. "Nay, but if your ladyship will have patience if I knew what food they have partaken of, or could see but the remnants of what they have last eaten for as to the external and internal symptoms, I can discover nought like; for, as Galen saith in his second book de Antidotis "
The prince had partaken of an excellent breakfast, and was advancing to his carriage. When he saw old Philip, the coachman, he gave him a look of grateful recognition, and inquired whether he had recovered from the fatigues of their uncomfortable journey. "I endured no fatigue, your highness," was the old man's reply. "I was on duty, and had no right to be fatigued."
Of the North European rites, again, he says, "the animal is slain and its flesh and blood are partaken of by the harvesters" "these customs bring out clearly the sacramental character of the harvest supper" "as a substitute for the real flesh of the divine being, bread or dumplings are made in his image and eaten sacramentally."
One morning, after they had partaken their frugal repast, she said, in a cheerful tone, "Dear grandfather, I had last night a pleasant dream; and Milza says it is prophetic, because she had filled my pillow with fresh laurel leaves. I dreamed that a galley, with three banks of oars, and adorned with fillets, came to carry us back to Athens."
Although I had not partaken of my repast until the hours of evening church-service were over, in which, by the way, I complied with the religious scruples of my landlady, who hesitated to dress a hot dinner between sermons, and also with the admonition of my unknown friend, to keep my apartment till twilight, several hours had still to pass away betwixt the time of my appointment and that at which I reached the assigned place of meeting.
Those last two hours before morning were the hardest part of all to Rube and Seth, for, in the parlor, they had to detail all the events of the preceding day to Lieutenant Barrow and his sergeant. And neither of them was good at explaining. Breakfast was partaken of; after which, since the soldiers had accepted all responsibility, Ma packed her men-folk off to bed.
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