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Updated: June 28, 2025
The heat of the burning afternoon came in with the stench, and Claude and Sandoz did not even feel the courage to order any coffee; they fled. 'And you who used to extol old Mother Faucheur's omelettes! said Sandoz. 'The place is done for. We are going for a turn, eh? Claude was inclined to refuse.
"Gee, but it would taste good," he said aloud. "What?" "I was thinking of breakfast," said poor Tommy, "hot rolls and things like that, Judy." "O-o-oh," said Judy, "how about some hot biscuit, with one of Perkins' omelettes and creamed potatoes?" "Oh, don't," groaned hungry Tommy, and fled. He came back in about two minutes, swaggering with importance.
They were almost frightened by the dirt and impudence of the beggars, and each clung to the arm of a masculine protector to pilot her through the crowd. They were, indeed, glad to move away from the rather rough element on the beach, and turn back through the town, where the peasants were now taking lunch of maccaroni and omelettes at tables spread in the streets.
Having debated between the rival houses of Poularde Aine and Poularde Jeune, and probably decided on the older branch of the family, perhaps with a view to being able to speak of their famous omelettes with enthusiasm, one is conducted to one of the houses or dependences connected with the hotel. If one has selected the Maison Rouge, it is necessary to make a long climb to one's bedroom.
Up yonder, beyond the Porte du Roi, rivalry has set up a counter-shrine, with a competing saint, with all the hateful accessories of a pretty face, a younger figure, and a graceful if less skilled aptitude in the making of omelettes in public. The hour of the coming in of the coaches, was, therefore, a tragic hour.
"You lost many men?" "Thousands. What matter? we have many more to come. The Imperial Guard has landed, and the reserve, are at Constantinople." "Yes, and there are the 'Sardines," said another pointing to the new uniform. "Plenty of new arrivals. M. Soyer, the great cook, landed yesterday." "What on earth brings him?" "He is going to teach the troops to make omelettes and biscuit-soup."
We ask no quarter and we shall give none. "Secondly, we have had to encounter the dislike of mealy-mouthed Freethinkers, who want omelettes without breaking of eggs and revolutions without shedding of blood. They object to ridiculing people who say that twice two are five. They even resent a dogmatic statement that twice two are four. Perhaps they think four and a half a very fair compromise.
Charles in snow and rain trotted across country. He ate omelettes on farmhouse tables, poked his arm into damp beds, received the tepid spurt of blood-lettings in his face, listened to death-rattles, examined basins, turned over a good deal of dirty linen; but every evening he found a blazing fire, his dinner ready, easy-chairs, and a well-dressed woman, charming with an odour of freshness, though no one could say whence the perfume came, or if it were not her skin that made odorous her chemise.
But we were far too hungry to wait, and before the omelettes arrived we had cleared a great plate of cakes. After weeks of indifferent trench cooking the first well-done omelette is a great joy, and, as I put down my fork, I glanced inquiry at Baker. "Rather," he answered to my unspoken question. "Mademoiselle, encore deux omelettes, s'il vous plait," I ordered. "Nous avons une faim de loup."
Norris's ideas of a picnic were large, the heritage of a day that knew few tins and miraculous powders that bloom into omelettes. She scorned them and brought along a generous store of raw steak and bacon and potatoes.
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