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Michael Angelo, Titian, Raffaele Sanzio, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, and many other great artists were raising up monuments of everlasting fame; Palladio was rebuilding the palaces of Italy, which were then the wonder of the world; Benvenuto Cellini and Lorenzo Ghiberti were designing those marvellous chef d'oeuvres in gold, silver, and bronze which are now so rare; and a host of illustrious artists were producing work which has made the sixteenth century famous for all time.
They offered hors d'oeuvres, a jellied soup, a curry, fruit tarts, and coffee. She shook her head, and continued to stare at the candles on the table. Fluffy, white moths were burning themselves in the flames. Parr protested that she must eat. In this climate one did not fast with impunity. "I sha'n't collapse," she replied, that stony look returning to her face.
Possibly a few highly respectable saints, who were fashionable in their day and contrived to live in Kensington without infection of paganism, will take their Leviathan in conventional courses, and beginning with hors d'oeuvres may will him everything by turns and nothing long; making him soup and sweets, joint and entrée, and even ices and coffee, for in the millennium the harassing prohibition which bars cream after meat will fall through.
A very old waiter, with white side whiskers like those of the late Emperor Franz Josef, very foreign and therefore particularly liable to misconstrue Gaga's stammered orders, served them with hors d'oeuvres, slashing down upon Sally's plate inconceivable mixtures of white and red and green fragments; and then hurried away as fast as his bunions allowed.
"Oh! anything; just what comes for the two shilling dinner no, not hors d'oeuvres; yes, soup." Edmund had turned with ill-restrained disgust from the sardines, tomatoes, and other oily horrors.
He could not conceive how such a wealth of pictures should remain shut up in the dust of immense stores; and told him one day that but for the practice of placing some of them in the apartments of Versailles he would not know even the principal chef d'oeuvres that he possessed.
"You have a good deal to say to me?" she remarked. "Yes, I will believe that. But of the truth how much, I wonder?" "By and bye," he said, "you will judge me differently. For hors d'oeuvres what do you say to oeufs de pluvier? Then " "Pardon me," she interrupted, "I am not interested in your dinner!" "In our dinner," he ventured gently. "I am not dining with you," she declared firmly.
Heating coils and hot and cold water in the rooms are even more rare: so rare as to be mentioned in the advertisements. Telephones in the rooms are rarer. In too many hotels in England there is still no light at the head of the bed. But we have certain advantages. For example, in English restaurants there is always something on the table to eat at once hors d'oeuvres or bread and butter.
"If you ever go," said Geoffrey, earnestly, "don't fail to lunch at the Hotel Côte d'Azur. They give you the most amazing selection of hors d'oeuvres you ever saw. Crayfish as big as baby lobsters! And there's a fish I've forgotten it's name, it'll come back to me that's just like the Florida pompano. Be careful to have it broiled, not fried. Otherwise you lose the flavour.
They have not even a cathedral, with eleven tons of solid silver archbishops in the back room; and they do not show you any moldy buildings that are seven thousand years old; nor any smoke-dried old fire-screens which are chef d'oeuvres of Reubens or Simpson, or Titian or Ferguson, or any of those parties; and they haven't any bottled fragments of saints, and not even a nail from the true cross.
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