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I will go as far as most people on tinned meats; some of the brightest moments of my life were passed over tinned mulligatawny in the cabin of a sixteen-ton schooner, storm-stayed in Portree Bay; but after suitable experiments, I pronounce authoritatively that man cannot live by tins alone. Fresh meat must be had on an occasion.
The coffee-room occupies one whole side of the edifice, and is provided with a great many tables, calculated for three or four persons to dine at; and we sat down at one of these, and Dr. ordered some mulligatawny soup, and a bottle of white French wine.
"Rorie is going up to-morrow not in a balloon, but to Magdalen College, Oxford so, as this was his last night, I made him come to dinner," explained Vixen presently. "I hope I didn't do wrong." "Rorie knows he's always welcome. Have some more of that mulligatawny, my lad, it's uncommonly good." Rorie declined the mulligatawny, being at this moment deeply engaged in watching Vixen and the dogs.
And throughout it all there ran a delicate motif of crashing cups and tinkling tins. "We have them, dear old soul," murmured Percy ecstatically to himself; "we have them simply wallowing in the mulligatawny!" But there is an end of everything even of getting a saw out of an R.E. store.
"Then they must be spies," said Miss Rutherford. "Not that I ever doubted it." "That water is pretty near boiling," said Priscilla, "What about dropping in the soup?" "Which shall we have?" said Miss Rutherford. "There's Mulligatawny and Oxtail?" "Mulligatawny is the hot sort," said Priscilla, "rather like curry in flavour. I'm not sure that I care much for it.
You will have to come home earlier than usual, for it is such a long drive, and it will never do to keep his mulligatawny waiting. And, by the way, I made a new engagement for you to-day. Mrs. General Leighton has invited us to join the Shakespearean Club which she is getting up. It is to be very select. Will meet at the different houses, you know, with a choice little supper at the close.
Tempest smiling pleasantly at her unbidden guest, and the squire stooping, red-faced and plethoric, over his mulligatawny; while Vixen, who was at an age when dinner is a secondary consideration, was amusing herself with the dogs, gentlemanly animals, too wellbred to be importunate in their demands for an occasional tid-bit, and content to lie in superb attitudes, looking up at the eaters patiently, with supplication in their great pathetic brown eyes.
Ostensibly to the hotel lobby they were as casual as, "My mulligatawny soup was cold to-night," or, "Have you heard the new one that Al Jolson pulls at the Winter Garden?" But actually the roar was higher than ever in Mrs. Samstag's ears and he could feel the plethoric red rushing in flashes over his body.
Her Indian curries and Mulligatawny soup are especially popular: Major Stokes, the respected tenant of Fairoaks Cottage, Captain Glanders, H.P., and other resident gentry, have pronounced in their favour, and have partaken of them more than once both in private and at the dinner of the Clavering Institute, attendant on the incorporation of the reading-room, and when the chief inhabitants of that flourishing little town met together and did justice to the hostess's excellent cheer.
Whereas for years and years past, when he was away in India, heroically fighting the battles of his country, when he was distinguishing himself at Assaye, and and Mulligatawny, and Seringapatam, in the hottest of the fight and the fiercest of the danger, in the most terrible moment of the conflict, and the crowning glory of the victory, the good, the brave, the kind old Colonel, why should he say Colonel? why should he not say Old Tom at once?"
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