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A grave- faced, important looking butler directed the service, and two footmen assisted. Everything was of the best, and wonderfully cooked and served, but Dolly and Dotty could scarcely eat for the novelty and interest of the scene. "Come, come, Miss Fayre, eat your terrapin," counselled Mr. Forbes, "it is not so good cold."
"Toujours seul, monsieur," he said, with an ugly grin. "What does that mean, Terrapin?" said Ralph. "He says that you always come home alone." "How else should I come?" said Ralph, dubiously. "How, indeed?" answered Terrapin. It was without doubt a dim old pile the Hôtel du Hibou. What murderers, and thieves, and Jacobins might not have ascended the tiles of the grand stairway?
"'If my neck was as long and as tough as Brother Terrapin's, I'd take one of the leaders out and make a fiddle-string of it, just to oblige the ladies, says I. "The girls turned up their noses and tossed their heads. 'Don't pester Brother Terrapin, says they. 'We'll not ask him any more. "'Ladies, says I, 'there is a way to get the fiddle-string without asking for it.
Lord Montague was evidently getting uneasy, for his attention was distracted from the occupation of feeding. "No, don't go Lord Montague, an old friend, Mr. Burnett." "Much pleased," said his lordship, looking round rather inquiringly at the intruder. "I can't say much for the champagne ah, not bad, you know but I always said that your terrapin isn't half so nasty as it looks."
B 's, where the entertainment was almost entirely American, New York oysters, raw, stewed, and fried; soup of American partridges, particularly good; also terrapin soup, rich, but not to my taste; American pork and beans, baked in Yankee style; a noble American turkey, weighing thirty-one pounds; and, at the other end of the table, an American round of beef, which the Englishmen present allowed to be delicious, and worth a guinea an ounce.
Suppers at balls and parties include now all sorts of cold and hot dishes, even a haunch of venison, and a fillet of beef, with truffles; a cold salmon dressed with a green sauce; oysters in every form except raw they are not served at balls; salads of every description; boned and truffled turkey and chicken; pft,s of game; cold partridges and grouse; pft, de foie gras; our American specialty, hot canvas-back duck; and the Baltimore turtle, terrapin, oyster and game patties; bonbons, ices, biscuits, creams, jellies, and fruits, with champagne, and sometimes, of later years, claret and Moselle cup, and champagne-cup beverages which were not until lately known in America, except at gentlemen's clubs and on board yachts, but which are very agreeable mixtures, and gaining in favor.
We serve it as a soup." "The angels made it." "No, Aunt Hannah." "I won't take it back. Angels only could brew this soup." The terrapin was followed by old Virginia ham and turnip greens. And then came the turkey with chestnut stuffing and jellies. The long table, flashing with old china and silver, held the staples of ham and turkey as ornaments as well as dainties for the palate.
Davidson entertained on a large scale, especially many of the officers of the Naval Academy at Annapolis and his friends from Baltimore. Mrs. Davidson's dishes were considered the finest, and to receive an invitation from the Davidsons meant that you would enjoy Maryland's finest terrapin and chicken besides the best wine and champagne on the market.
Like the English woman when she made her first acquaintance with terrapin, the most that Miss Cassandra could be induced to say was that the eau des fleurs d'oranges sucrée was not so very bad. The English dame, of course, said "it is not so very nasty"; but we have not become sufficiently Anglicized to say "nasty" in company.
Canvasback! Terrapin! Champagne! The general had seated me at his right. Somewhere toward the close those expressive gray eyes looked at me keenly, and across his wine glass he said: "I think I understand this. You want to get up the river. You want to see your mother. Have you money enough to carry you through? If you have not don't hesitate, for whatever you need I will gladly let you have."
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