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Clad in this preparation of pie-crust, he called from time to time at Beauchamp's hotel, and renewed his monologue upon that Radical empire in the future which was for ever in the future for the pioneers of men, yet not the less their empire. 'Do we live in our bodies? quoth he, replying to his fiery interrogation: 'Ay, the Tories! the Liberals! They lived in their bodies.
"Take some of this pie, Frank;" said Archer, as he handed me a huge plate of leafy reeking pie-crust, with a slice of fat steak, and a plump hen quail, and gravy, and etceteras, that might have made an alderman's mouth water; "and if you don't say it's the very best thing you ever tasted, you are not half so good a judge as I used to hold you.
Boiled puddings, three hours. Custards to be watched and tested after the first fifteen minutes. Batter puddings baked, forty-five minutes. Pie-crust, about half an hour. For this purpose, use either the knuckle or any odds and ends remaining. Cut off all dark or hard bits, and see that at least a quarter of the amount is fat. Chop as finely as possible, reducing it almost to a paste.
"Thanksgiving week" soon arrived, and the busy note of preparation for the approaching festival was heard throughout the house. Bridget was invested with a new dignity, in the eyes of the children, as she bustled about among the mince-meat and the pie-crust, the eggs and the milk, the fruit and the spices, that were to be compounded into all sorts of good things.
After that he began to make reprisals, according to his manner, taking no trouble to regard the women which debarred them from thinking much of him but settling with a steady gaze at each sea-faring man, whether he was made of good stuff or of pie-crust.
"We had one girl that used to let me roll out pie-crust and stir up muffins; but mamma caught me one day, with a new gown all covered with flour and bits of dough, and after that there was no kitchen for me." "Ask Alan how he boiled some meat once," said Molly. Alan hung his head in confusion. "I'll tell you, if he won't," went on his sister mercilessly.
Nat, indeed, confided to his brother, as they lay side by side in bed that night, that he was afeard ef there was much more of that keeping in of a fellow he would have to go back to pie-crust promises, and do again what was pleasing in his own eyes. Monday morning, however, restored a far less strained order of things.
You are to do penance for a month to come with tin pans of blackberry jam fringed with pie-crust no, they can't be blackberries, they must be raspberries the blackberries are not ripe yet. And you may sup upon cake and custards unless you give the custards for the little pig out there he will want something." "A pig! " said Mr. Olmney in a maze; Mrs. Evelyn again giving out in distress.
But Dolf interposed again, and luckily Clo's nostrils detected the odor of burning pie-crust, and she rushed into the kitchen to see if the girl had allowed her pastry to burn. Dolf took that opportunity to soothe the angry Victoria, and succeeded admirably.
She exclaimed that the Emperor had been poisoned; that she had remarked and preserved a newspaper, in which, in an article upon the sitting of the Jacobins, at the time when the Emperor Leopold declared for the coalition, it was said, speaking of him, that a pie-crust would settle that matter.
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