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"I've had so many of them," she said; "I don't know. Ask Maria." Maria responded with the sweetest readiness. "Dear Zoe, you are so slow! Cheesecakes." Mr. Gallilee patted Zoe's head as encouragingly as if she had discovered the right answer by herself. "That's right ices and cheese-cakes," he said. "We tried cream-ice, and then we tried water-ice.
"What a pity it is," said another, "that the old woman who left a legacy to the inventor who devises a submarine life-saving apparatus didn't leave us instead a cream-ice allowance! It would have been a far more practical thing to do." Madame Baudoin turned quickly to Commander Dupré, who now stood silent, smileless, at her sister's side.
"Would you, ma'am, he pleased," said Mrs. Bertrand, "to take a glass of ice this warm evening? cream-ice, or water-ice, ma'am? pine-apple or strawberry ice?" As she spoke, Mrs.
The children, Miss Minerva, preferred the cream-ice. And, do you know, I'm of their opinion. There's something in a cream-ice what do you think yourself of cream-ices, Mr. Le Frank?" It was one among the many weaknesses of Mr. Gallilee's character to be incapable of opening his lips without, sooner or later, taking somebody into his confidence.
Dinner on a plentiful scale was served at one, but out of 300 passengers only about 30 were able to avail themselves of it. Large glass tubs of vanilla cream-ice were served. The voyage was peculiarly uninteresting, as we were out of sight of land nearly the whole day; my friend the widow did not appear, and, when I attempted to write, the inkstand rolled off the table.
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