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Updated: May 16, 2025
He had still twenty-five minutes before dinner time, and he needed only ten minutes for a wash and to jump into his dress suit, so, instead of going directly to his hotel, he sat down at the Café de la Paix. He was thirsty, and calling for a vermouth frappé he told the garçon to bring him also the American papers. The crowd on the boulevard was denser than ever.
Jenks brought her a biscuit, a tin of meat, and that most doleful cup of champagne. "It is not exactly frappé," he said, handing her the insipid beverage, "but, under other conditions, it is a wine almost worthy to toast you in." She fancied she had never before noticed what a charming smile he had. "'Toast' is a peculiarly suitable word," she cried. "I am simply frizzling. In these warm clothes "
The nearer hills were silhouetted boldly against a sky of primrose and pink; but the misty depths where the lake lurked beneath the pines had not yet yielded wholly to the triumph of the new day. The air had a cold life in it that invigorated while it chilled. It resembled some vin frappé of rare vintage.
A hundred years later, it had so high a character, that the troops of Henri IV. turned away from the town, announcing that they did not wish to attack ceulx estoient du naturel de leur vin, qui frappe partout; and the king was forced to come himself, with his constable and marshals, to beat down the walls, in the course of which undertaking his men felt the vigour of the inhabitants to a greater extent than he liked.
They unpacked the little hamper with much gaiety. Everything was frozen solid, and the wine had cracked its bottle. "Shipped right through on our private refrigerator-car. That cold-storage chicken looks the finest that ever happened. What's this rolled up in tissue-paper? Deviled eggs and ham sandwiches AND caviar, not to speak of claret frappe.
"It will do," he said, magnanimously. "And now, green Chartreuse, frappe and a demi-tasse." Morley went out leisurely and stood on a corner where two tradeful arteries of the city cross. With a solitary dime in his pocket, he stood on the curb watching with confident, cynical, smiling eyes the tides of people that flowed past him.
Sally raised her brows in saucy imitation of Mrs. Lloyd Avalons's pet expression. Then she pushed Beatrix's words aside with daintily outstretched fingers. "Can't you?" she said coolly, as she ended her little pantomime. "Well, I can. To adopt Bobby's choice illustration, it would be like mixing potato and frappé.
Frappe de glace, of course," I added, and the waiter departed with a bow that would have graced St. James's.
The potato would melt the frappé, and then the frappé would well, would render the potato unpalatable. In other words, if we work together, I shall pulverize Mrs. Lloyd Avalons, and then the dust of her individuality will get in among my nerves and clog them." "If you can't be consistent, Miss Van Osdel, please do try to be concrete," Thayer urged.
And yet there were at the same time little half-acres for which men pushed a hundred thousand dollars in gold-dust over the counter and then crowed about their bargain. Henry George studied economics at first hand. The dignified frappe which he received in way of honorarium for his university lecture had its advantages.
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