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Perdrix 2 liv. 10f. Poulet 2 liv. Celeri 1 liv. 4f. Choufleur 2 liv. Pain et dessert 2 liv. Feu et appartement 6 liv. Total 19 liv. 8f. Against so impudent an extortion we remonstrated severely but in vain. We then insisted on his signing the bill, which, after many evasions, he did, a l'etoile, Foulliare.
Still others and we often saw their lordly and corpulent owners reading the "Times" upon the handkerchief space which serves for porch or piazza before their front doors move up and down the river from crack hotel to cracker, taking no note of picturesque "bits" or of mooring-places where Paradise seems come down to lodge between Berks and Bucks, caring naught that at this point four exquisite churches and two interesting manor-houses are within tramping-distance, at that a feudal castle and the fairest inland picture that England and nature can offer their lovers, caring only that at the "King" the trout are the best cooked on the whole river, at the "Queen" the chops are divine, while at the "Prince" the perdrix aux truffes are worth mooring there a week for.
The personages, for the most part, were low, the fare rustic: the plan raised expectations which were not fulfilled, and the effect was like being ushered into a stately hall and invited to sit down to a splendid banquet in the company of clowns, and with nothing but successive courses of apple-dumplings served up. It was not even toujours perdrix!
"Oh, coal-mines forever!" she said, smiling, her eyes brilliant with friendly mockery. "Aye! Toujours perdrix!" he admitted. He continued to look steadily and seriously into her smiling, sparkling face, until, with a sudden pulse of premonition, she was stricken into a frightened gravity. And then, with no prelude, no approach, quite simply and directly, he spoke.
I wish I could exchange our bill of fare occasionally with that French fellow who complained of having "toujours perdrix." He would be the loser, I take it. I could eat even perdrix aux choux a villanous dish formerly but we have no more cabbages than partridges to thank God for.
Emily flirted with the wing of a chicken saute au supreme, coquetted with perdrix perdu masque a la Montmorenci, and tasted a boudin a la Diebitsch. The wines were excellent the Geisenheim delicious the Champagne sparkling like a pun of Jekyll's. But nothing aroused the attention of the Viscount Chambery so much as a liqueur, which Mr.
Faithless Jehu The "Blarney Stone" Mennonites in search of News "Water, Water everywhere" A Herd of Buffaloes A Mud Village Pointe du Chene and Old Nile At Dawson Route A Cheerful Party Toujours perdrix The "Best Room" A Government Shanty Cats and Dogs Birch River Mushroom-picking The Mosquito Plague A Corduroy Road The Cariboo Muskeg.
"I'm not so sure for one I loved," said he. "What would you have liked me to bring you?" Annunziata thought. "I liked those chocolate cigars," she said, her face soft with reminiscence of delight. "Ah, but we mustn't have it toujours perdrix," said John. "Do you, by any chance, like marchpane?" "Marchpane? I adore it," she answered, in an outburst of emotion.
Next morning a hole was dug in the ground, and all three were buried together. This affair kept the Indians from hunting, as Gros Bras was nearly related to the principal hunters." "Grand' Gueule stabbed Perdrix Blanche with a knife in six places.
Then youth succeeds buoyant, wild, tempestuous youth foaming and sparkling like the bright champagne whose stormy surface subsides into a myriad of bright stars." "Oeil de perdrix." "Not a bit of it; woman's own eye, brilliant, sparkling, life-giving " "Devil take the fellow, he's getting poetical!" "Ah, Fred! if that could only last; but one must come to the burgundies with his maturer years.
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