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Updated: June 9, 2025
For her part, she most certainly would not eat haddock or kippers for dinner; she had too much self-respect to do such a thing, so she boiled or roasted a leg of mutton for her own repast and the maids'. I do not say that she was wrong; and, indeed, M. Zola never forced people to eat what they did not care for.
At this moment he had crunched a tender tooth down upon one of these infernal beads, having helped himself to it unconsciously out of the sweetbread dish. Is he doomed to swallow amber beads for the remainder of the repast? he asks himself.
One of the animals which had been skinned having been preserved for their morning meal, it was soon roasting, supported on two forked sticks, before the freshly made-up fire. This, with some maize flour, and a draught of water from the stream, formed their repast.
Not wanting to live in hermit fashion, I went downstairs to dine at the public table, and I found a score of people sitting down to such a choice repast that I could not conceive how it could be done for forty sous a head. The fair stranger drew all eyes, and especially mine, towards her.
He listened politely to Grisell's introduction of Master Ridley, exchanged silent greetings with Vrow Clemence, and insisted on their coming into the chamber within, where a repast of cold pasty, marchpane, strawberries, and wine, awaited them to be eaten while as yet there was nothing to see save the expectant multitudes.
Before her return to England for the summer she took them for an early morning feast in the public gardens of Cairo: and when the simple repast was finished, while "the little ones danced and waved boughs in a perfect ecstacy of merriment," the elder girls, she says, "seemed to find no pleasure so great as following us about, pointing to the flowers, and frequently throwing their arms round us, exclaiming, 'I love thee!
"I need a little nourishment before getting back into that puddle to sleep." "Father!" I said. "How can you talk of food when knowing " "Get some salt and pepper," he said, "and see if there is any mustard mixed. You've had a dream, Bab. That's all. The Case is in the safe, and William is in his bed, and in about two minutes a cold repast is going to be in me." Ye gods!
Fill your glasses to the brim, and having done honor to those who furnished our repast, allow me to propose ourselves: To the health of those who are about to eat a dinner which they have earned by the sweat of their brow." So saying, the emperor touched the glasses of his friends. "Now, postilion," cried he, before they drank, "blow us a blast on your horn a right merry blast!"
He grunted that a lying clock was hateful to him; subsequently sinking into contemplation of his thumbs, a sign known to Jonathan as indicative of the old gentleman's system having resolved, in spite of external outrages, to be fortified with calm to meet the repast.
The evening repast had just been finished, and the mother and son were walking slowly up and down the long porch overlooking the river in front of the house.
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