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Updated: May 29, 2025
See ochra is growing all around and I love thee; but the ochra will cease to grow, and I shall cease to love." Then the fog comes on again, Hoffman appears on the scene, the wood-nymph whistles a tune from Chopin, and suddenly out of the fog appears Ancus Marcius over the roofs of Rome, wearing a laurel wreath. "A chill of ecstasy ran down our backs and we parted for ever" and so on and so on.
Soup, of course, came first, then fish, then meat stewed with potatoes and onions, then other meat with ochra and tomatoes, then boiled chicken, which is eaten with a pilaff of rice colored with saffron, then delicious sweet potatoes, yams, plantains, and vegetables of every sort, then a kind of pepper, brought, we think, from the East Indies, and intensely tropical in its taste, then a splendid roast turkey, and ham strewed with small colored sugar-plums, then well, is not that enough for one person to have eaten at a stretch, and that person accustomed to a Boston diet?
The rooms are not very bad, the attendance not intolerable, the table almost commendable. The tripe, salt-fish, and plantains were, methought, much as at other places. There were stews of meat, onions, sweet pippins, and ochra, which deserve notice. The early coffee was punctual; the tea, for a wonder, black and hot.
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