Penny Blood Serial Cover — page 73: what you’re looking at

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ALFRED DE ROSANN. 65 cooking a mutton cutlet,’? answered Champignon seriously. ‘¢ And did you succeed ?” | “To my heart’s content ; I shall call the viands thus arranged coutelettes a la quadrille.’’* “ Bravo !’’ cried Belle-Rose, laughing. “ And _does the Cadran Rouge—that swmmum bonum of life—that king of restaurants—still exist?’ “Alas ! no ’?’—answered Champignon with a sigh. “And Madame Champignon?” . “Cold in the earth as a kidney-potato,’’ was the answer, accompanied by another sigh more deplora- ble than the former. “That comely creature!’ cried Belle-Rose, affect- ing a melancholy tone of voice, and assuming a comic- serious air, on purpose to draw out the communica- tive gastronomer. “She was, indeed, a rare morsel—plump as a> partridge—lively as an eel—and tender as a chicken!” exclaimed Champignon, eulogising in his own pecu- har style his departed consort. ‘“ Meseems that I see her still,’”’? he continued, with tears in his eyes— “her sleeves tucked up above her elbows, beating eges for my omelettes aux fines herbes, or picking raisins for the plumb-puddings with which those gluttonous and coarse-feeding English delight to gorge themselves.’’ “Doubtless ’twas a pretty spectacle,’’ remarked Belle-Rose. 3 , ‘In sooth was it—while her very mouth watered at the dainties she so craftily prepared.”’ “ Craftily, indeed! her reputation for disguising a cat en gibelotte, and for serving up horse-flesh as filet de beuf sauté, was proverbial in the neighbourhood,”’ returned Belle-Rose. ‘¢Gad! you knew her well!’’ exclaimed the de- lighted Champignon, not at all ashamed of this expo- * A modern French gourmand lately invented couteleties a la mazurka. : 6* conicbooks