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The landlady asked me what we would have. I said, 'What you like; and the landlady muttered something about " here the boy hesitated. "Yes. About what? Mutton-chops?" "No. Cauliflowers and rice-pudding." Kenelm Chillingly never swore, never raged.
He tapped Kenelm on the shoulder, and said playfully, "I made them cut a whole loin into chops, besides the cauliflower; and such a big rice-pudding, and eggs and bacon too! Cheer up! it will be served in a minute." "A-h!" said Kenelm. "They are good people; they did not mean to stint you: but most of their customers, it seems, live upon vegetables and farinaceous food.
There is no objection to his occasionally having, for dinner, either a mealy, mashed potato and gravy, or a few crumbs of bread and gravy. Rice-pudding or batter-pudding may, for a change, be given; but remember, the food recommended in a former Conversation is what, until he be eighteen months old, must be principally taken.
On one occasion I reported to the galley, though I was the skipper that year, in search of the rice-pudding for dinner Dennis, our cook, being temporarily indisposed. Such a sight as met my view! Had I been superstitious I should have fled.
On entering your house, she gapes in awe of what she considers the grandeur around her, and the whole of her first day's work consists of ejaculating 'Lor' and 'Goodness! We once had a hopeful of this kind who, after she had been given full instructions as to how a rice-pudding was to be made, sat down and wept bitterly for half an hour, till her mistress having told her to 'bake' the happy thought struck her to put a dish full of rice in the oven, sans milk sans eggs, sans everything.
Brian and his tiny sister consoled themselves for the little attention they got by slily climbing on the table and embedding their fingers in the rice-pudding. Nathanael read the letter aloud, as seemed to be the family custom with Uncle Brian's correspondence. "My dear Boy," I find the Western solitudes are no nearer heaven than civilisation.
Saunderson, for some of that rice-pudding?" The farmer, who, though he did not quite comprehend Kenelm's metaphorical mode of arguing, saw delightedly that his wise son looked more posed than himself, cried with great glee, "Bob, my boy, Bob, our visitor is a little too much for you!" "Oh, no," said Kenelm, modestly. "But I honestly think Mr.
She loved rice-pudding; her heart beat fast in her breast when she thought of the brown crinkly skin of the rich warm milk of a true rice-pudding; also she loved hot buttered toast, very buttery so that it soaked your fingers; also beef-steak pudding with gravy rich and dark and its white covering thick and heavy; she also loved hot and sweet tea and the little cakes that Amy sometimes bought, red and yellow and pink, held in white paper also plum-pudding, which, alas! only came at Christmastime and wedding-cake, which scarcely ever came at all.
He tapped Kenelm on the shoulder, and said playfully, "I made them cut a whole loin into chops, besides the cauliflower; and such a big rice-pudding, and eggs and bacon too! Cheer up! it will be served in a minute." "A-h!" said Kenelm. "They are good people; they did not mean to stint you: but most of their customers, it seems, live upon vegetables and farinaceous food.
The servant, her hands and face half washed, presently appeared with a tray on which were some mutton-chops, potatoes, and a cabbage. Adela did her best to eat, but the chops were ill-cooked, the vegetables poor in quality. There followed a rice-pudding; it was nearly cold; coagulated masses of rice appeared beneath yellowish water. Mutimer made no remark about the food till the table was cleared.
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