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She sketches and paints in water colors, and botanizes, and looks for bits of stones and rocks which she examines through a glass, and translates French and generally potters around. She's always busy. She can do anything from making an omelette to painting a picture." Billie turned her eyes half wistfully toward the plump brown-haired Amy Swinnerton.
But once his wife had eaten her breakfast and, to Bunting's mortification, she left more than half the nice omelette untouched she took the paper up again. She turned over the big sheets, until she found, at the foot of one of the ten columns devoted to The Avenger and his crimes, the information she wanted, and then uttered an exclamation under her breath. What Mrs.
Rachael began a low-voiced reassurance to which the younger woman listened reluctantly, scowling over her omelette, and interposing an occasional protest. "Oh, yap yap yap! My God, I do get tired of hearing you two go on and on and on!" Clarence presently burst out angrily. "If you don't want to go, Billy, say so. I'm sick of the whole thing, anyway!"
"There are other things in the life of a woman than to listen always to the wander-music." "The question is as old as the hills," Fenella declared, "and it bores me. I want some more omelette. Really, Andrea, your chef is a treasure. If you get your summons, I think that I shall take him over. Who will come to the theatre with me to-night? I have two stalls for the Gaiety."
Plans for a little dinner party were progressing pleasantly, over the omelette and toast, when Jim chanced to suggest that a certain Mrs. Pope be included among the guests. "Oh, Jim not Mrs. Jerry Pope?" Julia questioned, wide eyed. "Yes, but she calls herself Mrs. Elsie Carroll Pope now. Why not?" "Oh, Jim but she's divorced!" "Well, so are lots of other people!" "Yes, I know.
"I've seen omelettes that looked like one of Turner's sunsets," acquiesced Burns. "Precisely; and when Turner puts down in one corner of his canvas, 'Turner, fecit, you do not object, but if the cook did that with the omelette you wouldn't like it." "No," said Burns; "but he might fasten a tag to it, with his name written upon that."
The Ritz Restaurant will look like a bouquet of flowers. Perhaps 'One for you and one for me. At any rate, one is sure of an omelette one can eat." The two men turned together towards Piccadilly. Luncheon at the Ritz was an almost unexpectedly pleasant meal. The two men sat at a table near the door and exchanged greetings with many acquaintances.
At the moment when, ordinarily, there was still an hour to be lived through before meal-time sounded, we would all know that in a few seconds we should see the endives make their precocious appearance, followed by the special favour of an omelette, an unmerited steak.
"Well, then," replied Bibi-Lupin, "you may be quite sure of one thing you will never see twenty." "Why?" "Because you will be scragged within three days," replied the police agent. The murderer, who had believed, even after sentence was passed, that a minor would never be executed, collapsed like an omelette soufflee.
I counted the dishes: omelette, beef-steak and potatoes, cray-fish and trout, roasted pigeons and salad, cheese, grapes, and biscuits, without mentioning a full bottle of wine. Excuse my curiosity, but I should like to know how much you will have to pay for such a repast?"
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