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The bone she had, earlier in the day, decided would make her some pea-soup for to-morrow's dinner, but she thought of poor Dick and his hollow sides, and came to the conclusion that her soup would taste just as good without the bone; and Dick, when he really grasped the fact that the whole of the big bone was really meant for him, soon showed her that no ham-bone in the world had ever given more complete satisfaction.
You know what a rascally trick that opera creature served him, poor fellow. Cashmere shawls Storr and Mortimer's 'Star and Garter. Much better dine quiet off pea-soup and sprats ay? His betters have, as you know very well." "Pea-soup and sprats! What! have you heard of that already?" "Who bailed Lord Billingsgate, hey, you rogue?" and here Tom gave a knowing and almost demoniacal grin.
As he sat down he said in English also, with a laugh and with snapping eyes: "Good Lord, what brings you here, lady-bird?" As she pushed a chair under him she whispered through his hair: "You!" and then was gone away to fetch pea-soup for six hungry men. The Louis Quinze did more business now in three months than it had done before in six.
She wrote to a friend of hers about this time: "I dream always of my books and the pile of work. I am worrying on as well as I can with my miscellaneous writing. Fogs have kept us in black darkness and pea-soup thickness for five days without a lift, and with smarting eyes and compressed head I have double work at heart. I passed Christmas night in the Convent of the Holy Souls.
No doubt some disagreeable things are reported of yellow. We have had the yellow-fever, and we have had pea-soup. The eyes of lions are said to be yellow, and the ugliest cats the cats that infest one's garden are always yellow. Some medicines are yellow, and no doubt there are many other yellow disagreeables; but we prefer to dwell upon the yellow blessings.
A damp green stretch of park spread right and left immeasurably, confined by a chilly grey wall, and a damp long straight road between two huge rows of moist, dismal lime-trees, leads up to the Castle. In the midst of the park is a great black tank or lake, bristling over with rushes, and here and there covered over with patches of pea-soup.
Beds were to be had there at threepence and sixpence. I remember no arrangement for meals, and certainly never troubled the establishment in that way myself. The linen had a look of having been washed in pea-soup and dried in a chimney, and the whole aspect of the house and its clientèle was wo-begone and neglected to the last extreme.
We go forward because of the compass; but part of the time I do believe, just as you say, Tom, we've been flying upside-down!" "I don't fancy this way of flying," Tom announced. "I think it would be better for us to climb in order to see if we can get out of this pea-soup." "Ditto here!" echoed Jack. "I'm getting dizzy, with it all, and my head feels twice as heavy as ordinary.
"Ay, ay, sir," said he, and left the others to their meal. "Pea-soup!" exclaimed the captain. "Blamed if I thought I should taste pea-soup again!" Herrick sat inert and silent. It was impossible after these months of hopeless want to smell the rough, high-spiced sea victuals without lust, and his mouth watered with desire of the champagne.
As he sat down he said in English also, with a laugh and with snapping eyes: "Good Lord, what brings you here, lady-bird?" As she pushed a chair under him she whispered through his hair: "You!" and then was gone away to fetch pea-soup for six hungry men. The Louis Quinze did more business now in three months than it had done before in six.
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