revenais

Updated: May 9, 2025

I always take one leg and the liver for myself, and the totties roast the rest, and melt all the fat and entrails down in an iron pot and eat it with a wooden spoon. Je n'en revenais pas. 'What! the whole leg and liver at one meal? 'Every bit; ay, and you'd do the same, ma'am, if you were there. No bread, no salt, no nothing mutton and water.

Lady Lucie Duff Gordon - Letters from the Cape