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He tells of whole days when he ate nothing but berries and drank only cold water; and at other times of how he walked all day in a soaking rain and went to bed at night, supperless, under a pine-tree. Emerson records the fact that on long tramps Thoreau would carry only a chunk of plum-cake for food, because it was rich and contained condensed nutriment.
And he proceeded to relate without any embellishment the facts in the matter of Matlock's taking off, supplementing them with other details of interest to the man who sat for hours after his friend had gone in bitter self-communion. It was quite dark when he went supperless to his room and opened the cream-tinted envelope.
Feeling mad at having been sent to bed supperless uncommon mean in that part he pretended to wake up and came forth to sit at the dying fire. He pretended, too, that he was ill from worry. "The fact is, my father, when he died, left me a large farm. But I had no sooner taken possession of it than mortgages began to appear.
He knows all about natural selection, and the survival of the fittest. Tom ought to be a very apt disciple of your bio-sociological creed. Unhappily a more selfish mortal doesn't walk the earth. He has been known to send his wife and children supperless to bed, because a festive meeting at a club to which he belongs demanded all the money in his pocket.
These wandering knights were called knights-errant; they were welcome guests in the castles of the nobility, for their presence enlivened the dulness of those secluded abodes, and they were received with honor at the abbeys, which often owed the best part of their revenues to the patronage of the knights; but if no castle or abbey or hermitage were at hand their hardy habits made it not intolerable to them to lie down, supperless, at the foot of some wayside cross, and pass the night.
Why, you're as changeable as the last suit of a green lizard. When I asked you to stop, and hear me play 'Cross-possum, and 'Criss-cross, off you went without giving me a civil answer. I've a mind now to put up the fiddle and send your ears to bed supperless. How would you like that, old fellow? but I'll be good-natured.
"And now," said Delaherche in conclusion, "you won't have to go to bed supperless to-night; you have had a little something to eat. The worst is that I am afraid I shall not be able to secure another pass."
Not a morsel, not a mouthful remained either of yak-beef or food of any other kind and all three, Fritz making the fourth, had to go supperless to sleep. The exertions which they had made in carrying and erecting the ladders had so wearied them, that, despite their empty stomachs, all three were able to sleep.
And when Katharine, weary and supperless, retired to rest, he found the same fault with the bed, throwing the pillows and bedclothes about the room, so that she was forced to sit down in a chair, where, if, she chanced to drop asleep, she was presently awakened by the loud voice of her husband storming at the servants for the ill-making of his wife's bridal-bed.
She surveyed the inviting-looking table and then rang the bell. Eunice brought in a handful of flowers. Chilian came and Miss Winn. "Cynthia has gone to bed, she does not want any supper," was her quiet announcement. Elizabeth would have sent her to bed supperless, and approved of a severer punishment. Miss Winn asked some questions about Boston. "I have quite a desire to see it," she added.
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