ex-pastry-cook

Updated: May 14, 2025

Eat your fill of 'em, and throw in some good red wine, and apoplexy will be waiting for you round the corner." "I can't say: I never made such things," said the ex-pastry-cook, gravely. "Nor did I mean to say that I would have them made for my uncle. I am capable of killing, I am capable of shooting or cutting down the man I hate; but it is not in me to kill a man in order to inherit his property.

Mór Jókai - A Hungarian Nabob