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My word, Bet does know how to make prime claret cup" and Cedric smacked his lips with the air of a veteran gourmand; and then he sparred at Malcolm, and called him an absent-minded beggar, and asked if he had finished his ode to the naiad of the Pool, and made sundry other aggravating remarks, which proved that he was in excellent spirits and only wanted to find a safety-valve.
"Oysters and salads, potted meat and pastry; strong coffee and lemon syllabub with brandy. Good Lord, I don't know what should have kept the contents of an entire cemetery from sweeping down upon your slumbers, you female gourmand. Ghosts indeed!" And he stamped out of the room in high dudgeon.
Of this fault, I say, Godfrey was not guilty more, however, I must confess, from healthful drawings in other directions, than from philosophy or wisdom: he was a reader not in the sense of a man who derives intensest pleasure from the absorption of intellectual pabulum one not necessarily so superior as some imagine to the gourmet, or even the gourmand: in his reading Godfrey nourished certain of the higher tendencies of his nature read with a constant reference to his own views of life, and the confirmation, change, or enlargement of his theories of the same; but neither did he read with the highest aim of all the enlargement of reverence, obedience, and faith; for he had never turned his face full in the direction of infinite growth the primal end of a man's being, who is that he may return to the Father, gathering his truth as he goes.
The Van Wart household at Birmingham was a frequent refuge for him, and we have pretty pictures of the domestic life there; glimpses of Old Parr, whose reputation as a gourmand was only second to his fame as a Grecian, and of that delightful genius, the Rev.
"There are two consolations," said Savarin, as the friends strolled or rather crawled towards the Boulevards "two consolations for the gourmet and for the proprietor in these days of trial for the gourmand, because the price of truffles is come down." "Truffles!" gasped De Breze, with watering mouth; "impossible! They are gone with the age of gold." "Not so.
My troopers, who probably had not been flattering their imaginations with such gourmand reflections and views, sat happily around their cheerful blaze, chatting over the great battle they had so lately witnessed, and mingling their stories of some comrade's prowess with sorrows for the dead and proud hopes for the future.
So Ab had vigorous duties about the household. As has been told already, Red-Spot was a notable housekeeper and there was such product of the cave cooking as would make happy any gourmand of to-day who could appreciate the quality of what had a most natural flavor. Regarding her kitchen appliances Red-Spot had a matron's justifiable pride.
What have we shown? A country curate, who in his function of country curate is, like M. Bovary, an ordinary man. Have I represented him as a gourmand, a libertine, or a drunkard? I have not said a word of that kind. I have represented him fulfilling his ministry, not with elevated intelligence, but as his nature allowed him to fulfill it.
"What ho, Sir! what ho!" cried a shrill voice "for God's sake, don't ride over me before dinner, whatever you do after it!" I pulled up. "Ah, Lord Guloseton! how happy I am to see you; pray forgive my blindness, and my horse's stupidity." "'Tis an ill wind," answered the noble gourmand, "which blows nobody good.
Deborah West folded up the work, and put things straight generally in the room. Then she sat down again, drawing her chair to the side of the fire. "I do think that Cheese has got a wolf inside him," cried Amilly, with a laugh. "He is a great gourmand. He said this morning " began Miss Deb, and then she stopped.
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