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They agreed on the topic of Wine. Mr. Warwick had a fine taste in wine. Their after-dinner sittings were devoted to this and the alliterative cognate theme, equally dear to the gallant ex-dragoon, from which it resulted that Lady Dunstane received satisfactory information in a man's judgement of him.
When DIE WEBER first saw the light, pandemonium broke out in the land of thinkers and poets. "What," cried the moralists, "workingmen, dirty, filthy slaves, to be put on the stage! Poverty in all its horrors and ugliness to be dished out as an after-dinner amusement? That is too much!"
Later, across the table, when Slim Jim had brought in the after-dinner coffee, Haig looked at her gravely, and said: "May I become very practical for a minute, Marion?" "Yes, but not too practical." "Well, it's like this: I've got " He paused to reach for her hand, to clasp it on the cloth. "When, Marion?" he asked, leaning toward her.
They were responded to with a very fair display of after-dinner wit. "The last toast," said the toast-master, when he reached the end of the list, "is one which must appeal to us all. There is no one of us of the sterner sex who is not at some time dependent upon woman, in infancy for protection, in manhood for companionship, in old age for care and comforting.
Looking back at my own notes on the speech it would make with us but a ten minutes' after-dinner speech I see that it is said "that it is chiefly remarkable for the beauty of the language, and the abjectness of the praise of Cæsar." This was before I had heard of Wolf.
He had actually made for himself an after-dinner peace in which coffee could be drunk and cigarettes smoked as if nothing were happening to Europe. "England," he said, "will not be drawn in, because her ultimatum will stop the War. There won't be any Armageddon." "Oh, won't there!" said Michael. "And I can tell you there won't be much left of us after it's over."
But" and he solemnly pointed his gloved forefinger toward heaven "but, remember, there is One even greater than I." Duane had heard the absurd lampoon as a child, and one evening late in August, smoking his after-dinner cigar beside his father in the empty conservatory, he recalled the story, which had been one of his father's favorites.
Cream, lightly sweetened, flavored with sherry or rum, or a liqueur, and whipped, gives the last touch of perfection to a dessert of mixed fruit, or to wine jelly, or a cup of after-dinner coffee, or afternoon chocolate. A peach's first choice is brandy it must be real, therefore costly. Good whiskey answers, so does rum fairly. A good liqueur is better.
It was during many such rides, supplemented by visits to the factory and long after-dinner talks with many different persons, that I learnt something of the ins and outs of a planter's life. Although the Dutch Government are gradually abandoning the "culture" or "Government-plantation" system, the change is too recent to permit as yet of the full development of private enterprise in the island.
Taylor's house was supposed to provide a fairly liberal table, but Gus really did miss his after-dinner cup of coffee at Hooper's, and not many fellows would regard long letters to and from home as being the summum bonum of the week. Yet Todd had come to regard his mamma's letters four-paged gossip about his sisters, his brothers, the horses, and the dogs in the light of luxuries.
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