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Updated: May 18, 2025
It was for all the world as if we were being taken out to dinner, a thought which suggested for an instant the reflection that we might turn out to be not guests but courses at the banquet, in which case I promised myself I should be a piece-de-resistance of the most violent character.
Mafeking, however, was fighting on still; and many Boers had been killed in Natal. The piece-de-resistance was the last to come. It concerned our own Relief Column, whose progress the enemy had had the temerity to impede at Belmont.
Into all these they entered, the Marquis examining each with quick glances, dismissing them with the briefest interest and the most obvious comment. Dan saved the piece-de-resistance till last. This was a little room entered from the second corridor just at the turn the only room indeed, as he truthfully said, that merited a visit. "This," he explained, "we call the Oak Parlour.
But they were not in condition to care for following the usual fashion of dining, and least of all did they desire a dinner of different courses, so long as they had one sufficiently substantial to satisfy the simple demands of hunger. The two hornbills promised, each of them, a fair piece-de-resistance, while the fat pult was plainly a titbit, to be taken either hors d'oeuvres, or as an entree.
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