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During the evening meal, partaken of amid the gathering shadows of twilight, our newly discovered friend again evidenced his power as a trencherman. "Sacre!" ejaculated De Noyan in dismay. "I supposed his breakfast was intended to last the week. We shall need a fleet of boats to provision the fellow if he keep us company long.
The other's digestive tribulations touched a ready chord. An excellent trencherman himself, he understood what Mr. Peters must suffer. "Too bad!" he said. Mr. Peters turned the conversation into other channels. "These are my scarabs," he said. Lord Emsworth adjusted his glasses, and the mild smile disappeared from his face, to be succeeded by a set look.
"God forbid," replied Woodward, who, among his other good qualities, was an enormous trencherman, "God forbid that ever such a dose should go down my throat." "Would you think, now," he proceeded, with a sinister grin that sent his yellow tusk half an inch out of his mouth, "that if a man was jealous of his wife, or a wife of her husband, I couldn't give either o' them a dose that 'ud cure them?"
And in this unusual manner the two rolled into the Strand, and drew up at Romano's door. Mr Galloway was a good trencherman. At a very early date he had realized that a man who wishes to make satisfactory braces must keep his strength up. He wanted a good deal here below, and he wanted it warm and well cooked.
I trust, Ruth, he continued, 'that thou hast seen to the wants of our guests. We all protested that we had never received such attention and hospitality. ''Tis well, 'tis well, said the good wool-worker. 'But your plates are clear and your glasses empty. William, look to it! A good workman is ever a good trencherman.
Some pretend that these billows were sent by old Neptune to strand the expedition on a spot whereon was to be founded his stronghold in this western world; others, more pious, attribute everything to the guardianship of the good St. Nicholas; and after events will be found to corroborate this opinion. Oloffe Van Kortlandt was a devout trencherman.
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