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Sadders sent gentle messages of greeting over the wires. He was still a little piqued at his failure to secure the piper of the K.O.S.B., who had been commandeered by the Staff. Sadders waited for him until early morning and then steered him to our lodge, but the piper was by then too tired to play. Here is our bill of fare: Sardins très Moutard. Potage. Dindon Rôti-Saucisses. Oise Rôti.
The south-west point of the entrance bore west half south three miles; the south-east point south by west three-quarters of a mile; and the island Roti from south by west one quarter west to south-west one quarter west about five leagues.
At the hotels they feed you on a pale, sad table-d'hote imitation of French cooking, invariably buttressed with the everlasting veal and the eternal poulet roti.
In the citadel of Verdun it seemed as if it must have been evolved by rubbing Aladdin's lamp, and I said so as I read it over: Huîtres d'Ostende Bisque d'Écrevisses Sanglier rôti Purée de Pommes de Terre Soufflée de Chocolat Fruits Bonbons "Oh, we've never been hungry at Verdun, even when things were at their liveliest," said the officer sitting next to me.
"Oh, we don't want foreigners in English opera; why don't they take a barrel-organ through the streets, or a couple of canaries in a cage?" Nor was that all; for here was Mlle. Girond; and the smart little boy-officer, as she came along the passage, was gayly singing to herself, "Le rôti, la salade, L'amour, la promenade À deux dans les Dans les Deux dans les À deux dans les bluets!"
Her lips parted in fear and anticipation. "Have you taken all that on trust?" he continued. "If I were to die, suppose death is a great deed that even the smallest of us are able to accomplish Berthe!" He turned to the attendant who was waiting "Consomme Omelette aux fines herbes et poulet roti aux cressons." "Oui, monsieur Consomme pour deux, monsieur?" "The whole lot pour deux."
As I could not help feeling somewhat interested about the hermit-like attachment he evinced for solitude, I watched him narrowly for some time, and at length as the "roti" made its appearance before him, after he had helped himself and tasted it, he caught my eye fixed upon him, and looking at me intently for a few seconds, he seemed to be satisfied in some passing doubt he laboured under, as he said with a most peculiar shake of the head "No mangez, no mangez cela."
For three months, or even for six, that subject appears as the intellectual "rôti" at dinner-tables; then it is found a little heavy, and cultured interest returns to its natural courses of plays, pictures, politics, a dancing woman, and the memorials of Kings.
We coasted along by the island Roti which is high land, spotted with woods and savannahs. The trees appeared small and shrubby, and the savannahs dry and rusty. All the north side has sandy bays by the sea. We saw no houses nor plantations.
Berthe laughed with her little cooing sound in the throat. "Omelette aux fines herbes, et poulet roti aux cresson oui, monsieur." She departed and they listened to the repetition of it all "Deux consommes deux " as she shouted it through the little doorway to the kitchen. "Supposing I were to die," Traill repeated. He leant his elbows on the table and gazed steadily into her eyes.
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