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A lukewarm leg of mutton, very underdone, was on the table, the cloth of which was by no means clean; the dishes, which contained quite cold vegetables, were cracked and did not match; the bread was of the commonest kind, that which is called "household;" the knives were badly cleaned, and the plate was worn off the forks and spoons.
"Our dear young friend wanted strength; and what we had to do was to give our dear young friend strength vital power. Yes er um, that was the chief point. And what kind of diet might our dear young friend take now? Was it a light diet, a little roast mutton not too much done, but not underdone? O dear, no.
His essay, demonstrating that the globe is a great custard, whipped into coagulation by whirlwinds and cooked by electricity a little too much baked in the Isle of Portland, and a thought underdone about the Bog of Allen was highly spoken of, and narrowly escaped obtaining a Bridgewater prize.
We took for granted that we all liked beef underdone but not too underdone; that both men preferred a good liqueur brandy after lunch; that both women drank a very light Rhine wine qualified with Fachingen water that sort of thing.
You know, for instance, how tiresome Robert is about his food. Well, last night the mutton, I am bound to say, was a little underdone, and Robert was beginning to throw it about his plate in the way he has.
If provision could be made to pay the bills of this caravan, the Widow Larken who was shaped like a pillow with a string tied around it and wore a face like a huge, underdone apple dumpling was too good a business woman to overlook that opportunity. Bobby took one sweeping glance at that advancing circle of one hundred and forty eyes and turned to Widow Larken.
"I don't like the look of that sail," said Dab-Dab. "I have a feeling it isn't a friendly ship. I am afraid there is more trouble coming to us." Jip, who was lying near taking a nap in the sun, began to growl and talk in his sleep. "I smell roast beef cooking," he mumbled "underdone roast beef with brown gravy over it." "Good gracious!" cried the Doctor. "What's the matter with the dog?
Ropey went to the sign of the Pipe and Tankard; got fuddled; and over his fifth pot meditated suicide an intention carried out; for the next day he shipped as landsman aboard the Julia, South Seaman. The ex-baker would have fared far better, had it not been for his heart, which was soft and underdone. A kind word made a fool of him; and hence most of the scrapes he got into.
I I'm sort of the grape that fermented you see! She's me plus. Her arm is long enough to touch what she wants. Mine wasn't. I saw it, but I couldn't reach. I was one generation too underdone. You cannot have Zoe. I cannot. She doesn't belong to you or me. She belongs to life. She's not mine. She is only my success; she " "She goes home!" "No!" "Why in God's name did you get me on here?
Somewhere about the room you come across a bilious-looking object, which at first you take to be a lump of dough left about by one of the children, but which on scrutiny seems to resemble an underdone cupid. This thing the landlady calls a statue.
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