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He fell to like the good trencherman he was, and talked unceasingly of the wars in the East, and the brave deeds done there, and as he talked the girl forgot all else, rested her elbows on the table and her chin in her hands, regarding him intently, for he spoke not of himself but of her brother, and of how, when grievously pressed, he had borne himself so nobly that more than once, seemingly certain defeat was changed into glorious victory.
It will not ruin me quite, even if I pay for a supper for all three of us, and on a holiday one expects to spend something." "I hope you may not live to repent," retorted Pollux. "But a long fellow like me is a good trencherman, and can do his part with the wine-jar." "Only show me what you can do," cried Hadrian after him as Pollux hurried off.
With God be the future! Terry was late for lunch. Patsy Kenny had begged and prayed to be allowed to help in "lookin' after the master," so he took the afternoon watch, setting Lady O'Gara free to be with her son. It was not like Terry to be late for lunch. He was a very good trencherman and had always been the first to laugh at his own appetite. But to-day he did not come.
Wheeler consumed eight fried potatoes in quick succession. He was an able trencherman. "I always looked on you as one of our leading lilies of the field," he said. "Why this anxiety to toil and spin?" "Well, my wife, you know, seems to think it might put me one-up with the jolly old dad if I did something." "And you're not particular what you do, so long as it has the outer aspect of work?"
He counted himself among the launched, no doubt, and had breasted seas; but the boy was alive, a trencherman lad, in the coming schoolmaster, and told him profitable facts concerning his condition; besides throwing a luminous ray on the arcane of our elusive youthful. If they have no stout zest for eating, put Query against them. His customary enjoyment of dinner convinced Mr.
They dined well, they were all very hungry; but the fare was indifferent. Jean Blaise complained bitterly; he was a great trencherman and made it a rule of conduct to feed well; and no doubt what urged him to elaborate his gluttony into a system was the general scarcity. In every household the Revolution had overturned the cooking pot. The common run of citizens had nothing to chew upon.
Or if it did occur to me I put the idea sternly from me, for I was by way of being a robust trencherman. I had joyed in the pleasures of the table, and I had written copiously of those joys, and I now declined to recant of my faith or to abate my indulgences. All this talk which I had heard about balanced rations went in at one ear and out at the other. I knew what a balanced ration was.
"Why weren't you up?" said this society presently. "The idea of dinner was repellent to me." "To you, Peter the famous trencherman of song and story? Why this unwonted daintiness?" "Lassitude. Too weary to climb the stairs. Besides, I wasn't hungry." "Ah," said Reggie Townes, "you have the caveman's idea of dinner, I see.
"Eat," she said, "eat; ye'll need it this night yet." Bertram, in complaisance, ate a morsel or two and Dinmont, whose appetite was unabated either by wonder, apprehension, or the meal of the morning, made his usual figure as a trencherman. She then offered each a single glass of spirits, which Bertram drank diluted, and his companion plain.
They stared on the next occasion of meeting, when Bloundell spoke in contemptuous terms of old Pen; said everybody knew old Pen, regular old trencherman at Gaunt House, notorious old bore, regular old fogy. Major Pendennis on his side liked Mr. Bloundell not a whit.
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