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"You're very hospitable, but " "No buts: I will take no excuse. Don't fear that you shall have only mutton-chops and a rice-pudding; and, besides, I have a children's party coming at two o'clock, and there will be all sorts of fun. You are fond of children, I am sure?" "I rather think I am not. But I have never clearly ascertained my own inclinations upon that subject."
"I sprang to my legs with delight; visions of cowslips, larks, daisies, and mutton-chops floated before my excited imagination, and in ten minutes I found myself standing at that pleasant little inn at Cove which, opposite Spike Island, rejoices in the name of the 'Goat and Garters. "'Breakfast, waiter, said I; 'a beefsteak, fresh beef, mark ye, fresh eggs, bread, milk, and butter, all fresh.
I take a nap each day for a couple of hours. And I must have a pound of beefsteak or mutton-chops for dinner. The fever makes me that hungry! You see it devours all that I eat, and the strength of the food goes to that."
"I'm that stupid and awkward and careless that I'm no good to anybody. And I don't want to learn, and I don't want to be good. All I want is mutton-chops and puddings, and new boots." Her sullen little face stared at her aunt with a look of stolid indifference on it. Was it possible that poverty had pinched her child's heart so hard as to have pinched all softness and sweetness out of it? Mrs.
As I entered the circle about the cooking-fire of drift-wood by the lake, Iglesias said, "The beef-steak and the mutton-chops will do for breakfast; now, then, with your bear!" "Haw, haw!" guffawed Cancut; and the sound, taking the lake at a stride, found echoes everywhere, till he grew silent and peered suspiciously into the dark.
The landlady asked me what we would have. I said, 'What you like; and the landlady muttered something about " here the boy hesitated. "Yes. About what? Mutton-chops?" "No. Cauliflowers and rice-pudding." Kenelm Chillingly never swore, never raged.
Close by is the Golden Gate, in the Temple wall a gate that was an elegant piece of sculpture in the time of the Temple, and is even so yet. From it, in ancient times, the Jewish High Priest turned loose the scapegoat and let him flee to the wilderness and bear away his twelve-month load of the sins of the people. They wouldn't care. Mutton-chops and sin is good enough living for them.
Sturgis, striving to straighten her tangled wits, admitted the truth of this remark. After supper, which was a real feast, including bona fide mutton-chops and a layer cake, the Sturgis family gathered about the fireside. "This is home to you," Mrs. Sturgis said. "How strange it seems! But you've made it home I can see that. How did you, you surprising people?
To be sure, it was a very comfortable restaurant, where the waiters were always attentive and skilful and the mutton-chops irreproachable, and many a pleasant evening had we three had there over our cigars and Milwaukee, and sometimes a bottle or two of claret.
About a yard and a half from the fire was placed the breakfast table; in the centre stood a magnificent uncut ham, with a great quartern loaf on one side and a huge Bologna sausage on the other; besides these there were nine eggs, two pyramids of muffins, a great deal of toast, a dozen ship-biscuits, and half a pork-pie, while a dozen kidneys were spluttering on a spit before the fire, and Betsy held a gridiron covered with mutton-chops on the top; altogether there was as much as would have served ten people.
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