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Page 11
... mark the simplicity and the harmony of your social rela- tions . Here are all classes ; one of the principal ladies in the city sitting on the same bench with a couple of vendors of Swiss carvings . About the open - air buffet , at the ...
... mark the simplicity and the harmony of your social rela- tions . Here are all classes ; one of the principal ladies in the city sitting on the same bench with a couple of vendors of Swiss carvings . About the open - air buffet , at the ...
Page 52
... mark the drill , you hear the word of command . A man of military aspect stands at the end of the room , and watches his army of waiters defile along the tables with the soup . Then he retires to a side - room , to which his troops ...
... mark the drill , you hear the word of command . A man of military aspect stands at the end of the room , and watches his army of waiters defile along the tables with the soup . Then he retires to a side - room , to which his troops ...
Page 54
... mark upon the slip of paper - on the plat , or fish , or vegetable line , as the case may be . In this way she will wait upon twenty guests at separate little tables , without the least hurry , cr the most distant approach to a mistake ...
... mark upon the slip of paper - on the plat , or fish , or vegetable line , as the case may be . In this way she will wait upon twenty guests at separate little tables , without the least hurry , cr the most distant approach to a mistake ...
Page 55
... marks upon it , to the severe person at a desk by the door ; four sous to Amélie ( if I gave her six that has nothing to do with my contention , since none of her customers , except milords , exceed two sous a head as her gratuity ) ...
... marks upon it , to the severe person at a desk by the door ; four sous to Amélie ( if I gave her six that has nothing to do with my contention , since none of her customers , except milords , exceed two sous a head as her gratuity ) ...
Page 57
... mark - with the haunch of mutton . Only think of these things , my dear Mr. Baker , and then ask yourself why , to dine with Amélie , I or you must go to Paris ; or to enjoy a table - d'hôte we must travel to the banks of Lake Leman ...
... mark - with the haunch of mutton . Only think of these things , my dear Mr. Baker , and then ask yourself why , to dine with Amélie , I or you must go to Paris ; or to enjoy a table - d'hôte we must travel to the banks of Lake Leman ...
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Academy Notes Amélie Author bargain baronne basket BESANT and JAMES better Bloomsbury Baker boiling Boltt bread BRET HARTE cake Celestine centimes CHARLES GIBBON cheap cloth extra cloth limp Coloured cook Crown 8vo Cupboard Papers dear delightful Demy 8vo dinner dish Edited eggs England English Essay Facsimile Faubourg francs French hand honour husband JAMES PAYN JAMES RICE JULIAN HAWTHORNE JUSTIN MCCARTHY kitchen labourers Lady Southdown Larive laughed live London look LYNN LINTON MACQUOID Madame Barbizon Madame Michaux MARK TWAIN market-place meat Monsieur Fin-Bec Monsieur Tournebroche morning never numerous Illustrations observed onion OUIDA Paris Poems poor Portrait Post 8vo pot au feu Queen of Skirts Reginald Rosalie Ruggles Pick salad Small 8vo soup sous stalls taste Three Vols travelled vegetables W. H. MALLOCK WALTER BESANT wife WILKIE COLLINS woman
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