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It's burned me finger." The match went out and Beale and Dickie went back to supper in the crowded, gas-lit room. When supper was over it was tripe and onions and fried potatoes, very luxurious Beale got up and stood before the fire. "I'm a-goin' to 'ave a hauction, I am," he said to the company at large.
And here's Tom Tripe riding up-hill and down-dale, laming his horse and sweating through a clean tunic with a threat in his ear and a reward promised that he'll never see a smell of while the princess is smoking cigarettes " "In very good company!" "In good company, aye; but not out of mischief, I'll be bound! Naughty, naughty!" he said, wagging a finger at her.
"I've not been in," said Dick's voice from behind them. "All I've done is force an entrance." From in front Tom Tripe took up the burden. "And I wouldn't have liked your job, sir! It was bad enough to sit and guard the door. After you'd gone o' nights I'd sit for hours with my hair on end, listening; and the dog 'ud growl beside me as if he saw ghosts!" "Maybe it was snakes," Yasmini answered.
"Without the maharajah knowing?" "Without his highness knowing." "You'd do that with a clear conscience, eh?" Tom Tripe screwed his face up, puffed his cheeks, and struck a very military attitude. "A soldier's got no business with a conscience, sir. Conscience makes a man squeamish o' doing right for fear his wife's second cousin might tell the neighbors." "Ha-ha! Very profoundly philosophic!
He helped Leighton to half of its contents and himself to the rest. "Have patience, my old one," cried Leighton, "the boy may have an uneducated palate, but he is none the less possessed of a sublobular void that demands filling at stated intervals." "Bah!" cried Le Brux, "order him a dish of tripe with onions and vin ordinaire. But he'll have to sit at another table."
But Granny, of course, was joking, that was why she did not explain that deer tripe filled with blood was as great a delicacy as a suitor could offer his prospective grandmother-in-law; for among certain forest tribes, it is the custom that a marriageable daughter leaves the lodge of her parents and takes up her abode with her grandmother that is, if the old lady is living within reasonable distance.
Intellectual pigmies who accumulate much cash by trading in cash or tripe in a country town are quite apt to become too big for their britches and require to be taken down a peg or two, to be taught their place. They sometimes have the nickel-plated nerve to play Rhadamanthus to the purveyors of brains swell up like unclean toads and conceive themselves to be in "select society."
To wit: an early cup of black coffee, oftenest very bad; bread not to be had without an extra sputtering of Spanish, and darkening of the countenance; to wit, a breakfast between nine and ten, invariably consisting of fish, rice, beefsteak, fried plantains, salt cod with tomatoes, stewed tripe and onions, indifferent claret, and an after-cup of coffee or green tea; to wit, a dinner at three or four, of which the inventory varieth not, to wit, a plate of soup, roast beef, tough turkeys and chickens, tolerable ham, nameless stews, cajota, plantains, salad, sweet potatoes; and for dessert, a spoonful each of West India preserve, invariably the kind you do not like, oranges, bananas, and another cup of coffee; to wit, tea of the sort already described; to wit, attendance and non-attendance of negro and half-breed waiters, who mostly speak no English, and neither know nor care what you want; to wit, a room whose windows, reaching from floor to ceiling, inclose no glass, and are defended from the public by iron rails, and from the outer air, at desire, by clumsy wooden shutters, which are closed only when it rains; to wit, a bed with a mosquito-netting; to wit, a towel and a pint of water, for all ablutions.
The Indians prefer the tripe de roche when prepared along with the roe of fish, or when boiled in fish liquor. Our weary voyageurs resolved to remain among the rocks for that night at least; and with this intent they put up their little tent. They did not kindle any fire, as the willows were scarce, and there would be barely enough to make one or two more boilings of the rock-tripe.
He was a regular tiger. This man, who talked but little and who always seemed to walk with a stick up his back, had begun to roar and jump about. Then nothing more had been heard. Lantier had evidently explained things to the husband. Anyhow, it could not last much longer, and Boche announced that the girl of the restaurant was for certain going to take the shop for selling tripe.
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