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Updated: June 6, 2025
But she did see him; she watched him from her window as he walked away up the valley. He did not know; true to his fancy, he never turned his head. Bob Broadley was an early riser, as his business in life demanded. At six o'clock he was breakfasting in a bright little room opening on his garden. He was in the middle of his rasher when a shadow fell across his plate.
It is quite plain, slightly waved, and has a few stray hairs carelessly curved where it joins the forehead. No. 2 is for rainy weather; the curls are fuzzy and evidently baked in; it requires a durable veil to keep it in countenance. Evan calls it the "rasher of bacon front."
Bultitude, more hungry than he had felt for years, found his place at one of the tables, he was disgusted to find upon his plate not, as he had confidently expected, a couple of plump poached eggs, with their appetising contrast of ruddy gold and silvery white, not a crisp and crackling sausage or a mottled omelette, not even the homely but luscious rasher, but a brace of chill forbidding sardines, lying grim and headless in bilious green oil!
Would I believe the dictum of that low-born dog, when he told me that in head-quarters" and my father elevated his hand toward heaven "they cared this pinch of snuff, whether upon a Friday I ate a rasher or red-herring?" Two episodes interrupted the polemical disquisition.
The jolly yeoman cut a rasher of bacon, which Cicely soon broiled, and her father added a swingeing tankard of his best ale. It was settled that Edward should remain there till the troops marched in the morning, then hire or buy a horse from the farmer, and, with the best directions that could be obtained, endeavour to overtake his friends.
He has a few more miles to go before I can stable him for the night; and he needs rest and refreshment more than I do after his gallop over these bad roads." "I will go in and tell my dame to get breakfast for you," said the landlord, "while you are looking after your horse. I like to see a man treat his beast well, as you are doing; and you deserve the best rasher my dame can cook for you."
"'Tis a rasher of real Irish bacon that is awaiting your convenience, sir." The servant was now eying the visitor dubiously; John Steele wheeled, a perfunctory answer on his lips, and going to the dining-room swallowed hastily a few mouthfuls. From where he sat he could command a view of the front gate, and kept glancing toward it when alone. To go now, or wait?
"That sure does smell good, Ma'am!" declared Mack. "And it's on-expected. I only got a cold bite yere." "We'll have that at noon," said Frances, brightly. "But the morning air is bound to make one hungry for a hot drink and a rasher of bacon." In twenty minutes they were on the trail again. Frances now kept close to the wagon.
"And there wasn't a girl among them all that you fancied, my lad?" With spotless apron round her portly form she was serving the morning rasher while Caius and his father sat at meat. "I wouldn't say that, mother: I fancied them all." Caius spoke with generous condescension towards the fair. "Ay," said the father shrewdly, "there's safety in numbers."
I got up and made him a cup of tea, while Jenny prepared a rasher of bacon and eggs for his supper.
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