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The arrival of the waiter with hors d'oeuvres distracted our attention from the olive tree to its fruit, I rarely touch olives, but that morning I ate many. Should we have mutton cutlets or lamb? Doris said the Southern mutton was detestable. "Then we'll have lamb." An idea came into my head, and it was this, that I had been mistaken about Doris's beauty.
"That is right, Mademoiselle Victorine; but I am going to intrude into your atelier of mysteries, and see what chef d'oeuvres you have in progress." Judging from Madame de Fleury's tone, one might easily have supposed that she alluded to pictures or statues, and was about reverently to enter the studio of some mighty genius, and wonder over his achievements in marble or on canvas.
"You won't find a better," he cried, plunging knee-deep through the long grasses. "Anywhere's good in the sun, I say," replied Ivanoff, as from the boat he fetched the vodka, the bread, the cucumbers, and a little packet of hors d'oeuvres. All these he placed on a mossy slope in the shade of the trees, and here he lay down at full length. "Lucullus dines with Lucullus," he said.
The hors d'oeuvres were superb; among other things, there were fresh white mushrooms stewed in cream, and sauce provençale made of fried oysters and crayfish, strongly flavoured with some bitter pickles. The dinner, consisting of elaborate holiday dishes, was excellent, and so were the wines. Mishenka waited at table with enthusiasm.
He lit a huge monogrammed cigarette, pushed aside his hors d'oeuvres, and reluctantly turned down his array of wine-glasses one by one. "Can't eat, can't drink, can't sleep," he grumbled. "Stewed prunes and rice for my portion. Waiter, bring me a bottle of vichy, and when it's gone bring me another." The diners had arranged themselves by now; the supper had begun.
Seven or eight dainty bandboxes strewed the floor, some of their contents peeping from them feathers, aigrettes, flowers, impossible birds all had their place, and on the sofa were three chef d'oeuvres ruthlessly tossed aside. While in the widow's fair hands was a gem of gray tulle and the most expensive feather heart of woman could desire.
Of course this was in England, where roads are as smooth as asphalt and where raised or sunken culverts, the curse of motorists, are unknown. We did enjoy that Bohemian dinner. We had all the things that one does not have in a military mess on Salisbury Plain. Hors d'oeuvres, salad, fish, duck, and so forth.
Foston Rowe studied the menu disapprovingly. "Hors d'oeuvres," she declared, "I never touch. No one knows how long they've been opened. Bouillon I will have some bouillon, steward." "In one moment, madam." The Professor just then came ambling along towards the table. "I fear that I am a few moments late," he remarked, as he took the chair next to Mrs. Foston Rowe.
The same writer has told us that so far from reproducing the ordinary costumes of his period Stevens took pains to seek exclusive and elegant examples, chefs d'oeuvres of the dressmaker's art, and that such were put at his service by the great ladies of the second empire. The beautiful muslin over-dress of the Dame en Rose is perhaps the one that most taxed his flexible brush.
So they all drank and touched glasses. To Yourii vodka tasted horrible. It was burning and bitter as poison. He helped himself to the hors d'oeuvres, but these, too, had a disagreeable flavour, and he could not swallow them. "No!" he thought. "It doesn't matter if it's death, or Siberia, but get away from here I must! Yet, where shall I go?
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