eggs-and-bacon

Updated: May 5, 2025

A dish of fried eggs-and-bacon was ordered from a hideous old wench that came to serve us, in place of the lovely creature I had expected to see; and the Captain, laughing, said, 'Well, our meal is a frugal one, but a soldier has many a time a worse: and, taking off his hat, sword-belt, and gloves, with great ceremony, he sat down to eat.

William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon