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This underlined circumlocution is the paraphrase of the word love in the language of prudes. Have you put yourself in her place? Well, this too-much-loved husband by chance remarked at his friend Monsieur de Fischtaminel's, that he was very fond of mushrooms a l'Italienne.

"Your mushrooms a l'Italienne?" "These mushrooms! I thought they were well, yes, they are mushrooms!" "Yes, and a l'Italienne, too." "Pooh, they are old preserved mushrooms, a la milanaise. I abominate them!" "What kind is it you like, then?" "Fungi trifolati."

We passed through the Graetani village, whose tenants bear a bad name, and saw none of the pretty faces for which Zante is famed. The sex was dressed in dark jackets and petticoats a l'italienne; and the elders were apparently employed in gathering 'bitter herbs, dandelion and the wild endive. Verily this is a frugal race.

"My dear," resumes Adolphe, on seeing the clouded and lengthened face of his chaste Caroline, "in France the dish in question is called Mushrooms a l'Italienne, a la provencale, a la bordelaise. The mushrooms are minced, fried in oil with a few ingredients whose names I have forgotten. You add a taste of garlic, I believe " Talk about calamities, of petty troubles!

fr. s. Boeuf au naturel ou a la sauce 0 15 Boeuf aux choux ou aux legumes 0 18 Carnebif 1 10 Rosbif 1 5 Filet de Boeuf saute dans sa glace 1 5 Bifteck 1 5 Entre-cote, sauce aux cornichons 1 5 Palais de Boeuf au gratin 1 4 Palais de Boeuf a la poulette ou a l'Italienne 1 0 Langue de Boeuf glacee aux epinards 1 0 Jarrets de veau 0 15

This underlined circumlocution is the paraphrase of the word love in the language of prudes. Have you put yourself in her place? Well, this too-much-loved husband by chance remarked at his friend Monsieur de Fischtaminel's, that he was very fond of mushrooms a l'Italienne.

"Ah, you here?" said he to his young friend, without any astonishment. "You have come for the procession. That is well. You will hear sung the lovely lines: 'Hi sunt quos fatue mundus abhorruit." He pronounced ou as u, 'a l'Italienne'; for his liturgic training had been received in Rome. "The season is favorable for the ceremonies. The tourists have gone.

"Ah! yes, I understand," said Maugiron and Schomberg. "The king wishes a boar's head for breakfast to-morrow." "With the neck dressed a l'Italienne," said Maugiron, alluding to the turn-down collar which Bussy wore in opposition to their ruffs. "Ah, ah," said D'Epernon, "I understand." "What is it?" asked D'O, "for I do not." "Ah! look round you." "Well!" "Did any one laugh at us here?"

"My dear," resumes Adolphe, on seeing the clouded and lengthened face of his chaste Caroline, "in France the dish in question is called Mushrooms a l'Italienne, a la provencale, a la bordelaise. The mushrooms are minced, fried in oil with a few ingredients whose names I have forgotten. You add a taste of garlic, I believe " Talk about calamities, of petty troubles!

"Your mushrooms a l'Italienne?" "These mushrooms! I thought they were well, yes, they are mushrooms!" "Yes, and a l'Italienne, too." "Pooh, they are old preserved mushrooms, a la milanaise. I abominate them!" "What kind is it you like, then?" "Fungi trifolati."