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Numerous books were printed describing the laws, the superstitions, the cabins, the repasts, the dresses, the marriages, the funerals of Laplanders and Hottentots, Mohawks and Malays. The plays and poems of that age are full of allusions to the usages of the black men of Africa and of the red men of America.
But MY words are poor, contemptible, stammering words: gladly do I pick up what falleth from the table at your repasts. Yet still can I say therewith the truth to dissemblers! Yea, my fish-bones, shells, and prickly leaves shall tickle the noses of dissemblers! Bad air is always about you and your repasts: your lascivious thoughts, your lies, and secrets are indeed in the air!
This lady was not, more than her hostess, in the first flush of her youth; her appearance the scattered remains of beauty manipulated by taste resembled one of the light repasts in which the fragments of yesterday's dinner figure with a conscious ease that makes up for the want of presence.
And who shall say that the early Jacobinism and later culture of Napoleon was more than a veneer spread all too thinly over an Italian condottiere of the Renaissance age? These men were too expert at wiles really to trust to the pompous assurances of Tilsit and Erfurt. De Maistre tells us that Napoleon never partook of Alexander's repasts on the banks of the Niemen.
"My departure is to be," said he, "at break of day, three o'clock in the morning; I have then fifteen hours before me. Take from them the six hours of sleep which are indispensable for me six; one hour for repasts seven; one hour for a farewell visit to Athos eight; two hours for chance circumstances total, ten. There are then five hours left.
VERRINA. No every rascal in Italy will say it. Are you contented with the leavings of other men's repasts? BOURGOGNINO. Old man, do not make me desperate. CALCAGNO. Bourgognino! he speaks the truth. The truth? Has the girl then mocked me? CALCAGNO. No! no! Bourgognino. The girl is spotless as an angel. By my soul's happiness, I comprehend it not! Spotless, yet dishonored!
It is probable that this conduct was duly appreciated by those who participated in those rather boisterous repasts, and that they felt a certain gratitude, in spite of the regrets they manifested on account of Madame's absence. Among the guests was Marillac, whose sparkling eye, and cheeks even more rosy than usual, made him conspicuous.
He glanced round it with feeble appreciation. It was a hopeless sort of place, yet he could not detect its shortcomings. The rough, log-built walls, smeared with a mud plaster, were quite unadorned. There was one solitary opening for a window, and in the center of the room was a roughly manufactured table, laden with the remains of several repasts.
It is the duty of the medical officers to tell the cooks what repasts shall be prepared on each day, and what food for the old, what for the young, and what for the sick.
Taking into consideration the rank of his prisoner, the captain permitted the Marquis to have with him his orderly, an Alsatian, who twice a day brought from the inn his chief's repasts. This functionary had permission also, from ten o'clock in the morning until sunset, to promenade in the court under the eye of the sentinel on guard at the entrance.
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