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They are getting together the bonbons, iced cakes, Christmas trees at Fortnum and Mason's now. The genii of the theatres are composing the Christmas pantomime, which our young folks will see and note anon in their little diaries. And now, brethren, may I conclude this discourse with an extract out of that great diary, the newspaper?
Washball had a headache, so had Lumpleg; Crane was seedy; and Captain Guano, sea-green. Soda-water was in great request. There was a splendid breakfast, table and sideboard looking as if Fortnum and Mason or Morel had opened a branch establishment at Hanby House.
Fortnum and Mason, and thus added generously to our menus. It was a glorious feeling, pushing open the door of that farm and coming in from all the wet, darkness, mud and weariness of four days in the trenches. After the supper, I disappeared into the back kitchen place and did what was possible in the shaving and washing line.
Dick also said he would write and tell me everything; and that if I felt moved to send them down a hamper the sort of thing that, left to themselves, Fortnum & Mason would put together for a good-class picnic, say, for six persons I might rely upon it that nothing would be wasted. Veronica, by my desire, walked with me to the end of the lane. I talked to her very seriously.
Certainly they are more uniformly trained. But there was a piquancy about our old scamps in 'K that was unique priceless something the world will never see again." "I don't know," said Bobby thoughtfully. "That Cockney regiment which lay beside us at Albert last summer was a pretty priceless lot. Do you remember a pair of fat fellows in their leading platoon? We called them Fortnum and Mason!"
We shall soon make you strong and well; for we have come laden with cases of delicacies for your special delectation. Your father chose them himself at Fortnum and Mason's." He winced at the mention of his father's name, and drew in his legs in a peculiar, decisive way. "Then you knew I was ill?" he said, almost suspiciously. "Yes, Joseph telegraphed." "To whom?" sharply. "To Maurice."
It makes him see intentions that were never conceived; and without vanity to guide his perception man is as blind a creature as walks upon this earth. "However," he said, as if to prove his own density, "I am selfishly very glad that you had to come back sooner. Not only on account of the delicacies I must ask you to believe that. Did my eye brighten at the mention of Fortnum and Mason?
Fortnum and Mason, no doubt, would have done it all for him without any trouble on his part, but he was not a man to trust any Fortnum or any Mason as to the excellence of the article to be supplied, or as to the price. He desired to have good wine very good wine, but he did not desire to pay a very high price.
It is a matter of course that in all things the public should trust to established reputation. It is as natural that a novel reader wanting novels should send to a library for those by George Eliot or Wilkie Collins, as that a lady when she wants a pie for a picnic should go to Fortnum & Mason. Fortnum & Mason can only make themselves Fortnum & Mason by dint of time and good pies combined.
He would have brought down a hamper of delicacies from Fortnum and Mason, but Cedric remonstrated with him and said his sisters would much prefer simple country fare. And then Harry gave orders to his bailiff that the plumpest chickens and the fattest ducks were to be sacrificed, and new laid-eggs and cream served ad libitum.
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