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Heavens! spoil-sauce!" he suddenly cried out to the cook; "what makes you put vinegar in that fricassee when you have lemons? And, madame," he added, "you gave me such coarse sheets I couldn't close my eyes all night."
An astonishing calm reigned in that huge, deserted inn, with no steward, no cook, no attendants, none of the staff arrived until the first cool days, and given over to the care of a native spoil-sauce, an expert in stoffatos and risottos, and to two stable-boys, who donned the regulation black coat, white cravat and pumps at meal hours.
An astonishing quiet reigned in this great deserted inn, with neither manager, nor cook, nor waiters the whole staff coming only in the winter and given up for domestic needs to a local spoil-sauce, expert at a stoffato, a risotto; also to two stablemen, who clothed themselves at meal-time with the dress-coat and white tie of office.
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