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It was a large and lofty cellar, paved with cement; floor, ceilings, walls, were whitened with flour. There were long clean tables for rolling the dough; big wooden bowls; farther back, the ovens and several bakers at work adding to the huge piles of loaves the huge baskets of rolls. Susan's eyes glistened; her white teeth showed in a delightful smile of hunger about to be satisfied.

It was the lean-to kitchen, the only place where fire was kept on Sunday: and indeed that was the usual winter dwelling-room, a little outer kitchen serving for all the dirty work. It was in what I should call dreary Sunday order; which means, order without life. The very chairs and tables seemed to say forlornly that they had nothing to do.

At one of these tables where we larger boys sat, only French was spoken; at another only the purest German; and we had ourselves made the rule that whoever used a word of his native tongue at one, or a foreign one at the other, should be fined a kreutzer. How merry were these banquets, at which usually several teachers were welcome guests!

During this hour or hour and a half he used to take his fling, going round to the studies of all his acquaintance, sparring or gossiping in the hall, now jumping the old iron-bound tables, or carving a bit of his name on them, then joining in some chorus of merry voices in fact, blowing off his steam, as we should now call it.

Dominoes were rattling on the tables, and though everything was open to the air, the strong smell of gin and tobacco struck you in the face. Tonet had pleasant memories of the place the scene of his triumphs in generosity in the first months of his marriage to Rosario.

These lower classes Harrison found very friendly at their tables merry without malice, plain without Italian or French subtlety so that it would do a man good to be in company among them; but if they happen to stumble upon a piece of venison or a cup of wine or very strong beer, they do not stick to compare themselves with the lord-mayor and there is no public man in any city of Europe that may compare with him in port and countenance during the term of his office.

Each man had a soup-plate and bowl of enamelled tin, and each in his turn received quarter of a loaf of fresh bread and a big ladleful of steaming coffee, which he made off with to his place at one of the long tables under a shed at the side of the stockade.

Five little individual tables were laid there and on each table lay a Japanese creature of some sort whichbeing opened somewhererevealed salad within. "Well, I never did!" exclaimed the guest; "this dinner ought to be put in a book!" "We’ll put it in ourselves first," said Mitchell. "I never believe in booking any attraction until it has been tried on a select few.

We talked a good deal together, and I confided to her my annoyance at the prospect of being called up to answer a toast; but she did not pity me at all, though she felt, much alarm about her husband, Captain , who was in the same predicament. Seriously, it is the most awful part of my official duty, this necessity of making dinner-speeches at the Mayor's, and other public or semi-public tables.

We saw from the sidewalk gaily-decorated interiors; we heard enchanting music, and there seemed to be a vast deal of jollity within. No one tried to prevent our entering; we merely followed the others; and, indeed, it was all a mystery to us. Cards were being dealt at the faro tables, and dealt by beautiful women in bewildering attire.