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The telegraph-jee takes great pleasure in seeing roast chicken mysteriously disappear, and the dish of pillau gradually diminish in size; in fact, the unconcealed satisfaction afforded by these savory testimonials of his cook's abilities give him such pleasure that he urges me to remain his guest for a day and rest up.
Many guests were present horse dealers, ox-herds, and two Englishmen and the two Englishmen were so rich that their pockets bulged out with gold coins, and almost burst; and they could bet too, as you shall hear. Hiss-s-s! hiss-s-s! What was that by the stove? The apples were beginning to roast! "What is that?" "Why, do you know ," said our peasant.
They were calling each other mother and daughter then? Yes. The sacred fire of sorrow was fast burning out all Ayacanora's fallen savageness; and, like a Phoenix, the true woman was rising from those ashes, fair, noble, and all-enduring, as God had made her. "Oh, where be these gay Spaniards, Which make so great a boast O? Oh, they shall eat the gray-goose feather, And we shall eat the roast O!"
He went, at length, into his reasons for thinking so, and described the modus operandi of the thefts. "Now, all this is just theory, so far, but when I'm able to prove it, I'm going to put the arm on this Walters, if it's right in the middle of dinner and he only has the roast half served. And I want you ready to step into the vacancy thus created.
Pearlie could take a piece of rump and some suet and an onion and a cup or so of water, and evolve a pot roast that you could cut with a fork. She could turn out a surprisingly good cake with surprisingly few eggs, all covered with white icing, and bearing cunning little jelly figures on its snowy bosom.
Mon cher Armine, we shall have some fun. 'Yes, my lord, said the waiter, running down stairs. 'Dinner for best drawing-room directly; green-pea-soup, turbot, beefsteak, roast duck and boiled chicken, everything that is good, champagne in ice; two regular nobs! The dinner soon appeared, and the two friends seated themselves. 'Potage admirable! said Count Mirabel.
But had one glimpse of a victorious Irish army been caught in the distance, the case would have been widely different, indeed; and those who were constrained, through the force of circumstances, to fall into line with the paid, official squad who ruled the roast for the time being, would soon hoist their true colors and step out beneath the folds of that glorious banner of green and gold before which, with all her boasting armaments, the tyrant power of England now trembles to its very base.
The Dago Duke's tone was one of easy friendliness. "All you need, but don't forget the suspense is hard on Essie Tisdale." Mrs. Sylvanus Starr, who was indisposed, sat up in her robe de nuit of pink, striped outing-flannel and looked down into the street. "Pearline," she said hastily, "turn the dish-pan over the roast beef and cache the oranges.
The flesh is eaten raw by the aborigines in their wild state, but the more civilized "burn it," as they say, "like white men;" that is, they cut off huge lumps of the flesh, lay them before a fire to roast, gnaw off the surface as fast as it burns, and put down the remainder to toast again until the appetite is glutted.
We may save some of the poor devils," cries Frere, his heartiness of body reviving at the prospect of excitement. "Boat!" said Blunt, "why, she's twelve miles off and more, and there's not a breath o' wind!" "But we can't let 'em roast like chestnuts!" cried the other, as the glow in the sky broadened and became more intense. "What is the good of a boat?" said Pine.
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