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In five minutes I had finished the consommé, and it became painful to linger. Rising, I made for the door, which seemed a mile away, and I did not lift my head in passing the table where the lady sat behind her roses.
But though their faces, so far as he had seen them, were unfamiliar to him, their identity was made plain to him by the first words which caught his ear. There were two soups on the menu, and the man's mind instantly poised itself between them. "Which soup shall I take?" he asked, turning with a frown of uncertainty to his wife. "I should say the consommé, Julius," was the reply.
Take two pounds of mushrooms, put them in a stewpan over the fire with a gill of strong consommé. Squeeze in a few drops of lemon juice, add a little pepper and salt, unless the consommé was salt enough. Melt in a gill of water half an ounce of gelatine, and strain it.
"I thought I should like the broth better," he objected. "I don't think it will disagree with you," she said. "Perhaps I had better have the consommé," he argued, looking with appeal to his wife and then to the girl at his right. "Which would you take, Mary?" "I?" said the young woman; "I should take both in my present state of appetite. Steward, bring both soups.
This being clear at last, the newcomer said: "Oh, very well! Then just give my order to the head-waiter, will you there's a good chap a cup of consommé, a bit of fish, a bird of some sort, broiled, I fancy, er potatoes au gratin, a green salad of some kind, serve that with the bird, a piece of Camembert, if it's in good condition, any entremet you have and a demi-tasse.
"That will be very good if Ellen can be induced to keep it thick." "Perhaps we'd better tell her we want a celery consomme," suggested Thaddeus. "Then it will be sure to be as thick as a dictionary." "I guess it will be all right," said Bessie. "What kind of fish?" "Bradley likes salmon; Robinson likes sole; Phillips likes whitebait, and so do I." "We'll have whitebait," said Bessie, simply.
Wingate took his place, and the conversation merged into those indefinite channels necessitated by the presence of servants. The dinner, simple though it was, was perfect, iced consomme, a lobster mayonnaise, cold cutlets and asparagus.
At seven o'clock we gives it up and sits down alone. We hadn't finished our soup when this telegram comes. First off I thought Martha was goin' to choke or blow a cylinder head, I didn't know which. Then she takes to sobbin' into the consommé, and fin'lly she shoves the message over to me. "Wh-a-at?" I gasps. "Eloped, have they?"
What imbecile suggested Barquettes Norvégienne? Monsieur Beauchamp mentioned other dishes as an overture to the meal, waxing increasingly wrathy towards the waiter on each veto. Ah! monsieur desired Consommé Anton. The proprietor's face beamed and his arms were outstretched towards heaven.
They sat at a round table on which were flowers, and a large block of ice in a crystal dish. "Do you understand Russian soups?" asked Margaret of Claudius, as she deposited a spoonful of a wonderful looking pâté in the middle of her consommé. "Alas" said the Doctor, "I am no gastronome. At least my friend Mr. Barker tells me so, but I have great powers of adaptation.
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