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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Business is not my strong point at any time," said Sir Lulworth, "and certainly not when we're on the immediate threshold of lunch." "It isn't exactly business," explained Egbert, as he followed his uncle into the dining-room. "It's something rather serious. Very serious." "Then we can't possibly speak about it now," said Sir Lulworth; "no one could talk seriously during a borshch.
We begin with Spanish olives, then a borshch, then more olives and a bird of some kind, and a rather enticing Rhenish wine, not at all expensive as wines go in this country, but still quite laudable in its way. Now there's absolutely nothing in that menu that harmonises in the least with the subject of your great- aunt Adelaide or her funeral.
A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought. Later on, when we arrive at the second stage of olives, I shall be quite ready to discuss that new book on Borrow, or, if you prefer it, the present situation in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg.
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