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Broome Street Straws

Broome Street Straws

Holliday, Robert Cortes

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General United States History

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ISBN10: 0217913040
ISBN13: 9780217913041
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.11 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II ON EATING DINNER AS he descended the couple of little steps that lead down to the grill room at Keene's Chop House the melancholy eyes of Mr. Angus Bleak (the celebrated?nay! illustrious, anthropologist) were greeted and caressed by a delectable spectacle: rows upon rows of dapper, happy gentlemen, wreathed in jolly ribbons of tobacco smoke, surrounded by sparkling linen, flashing glass and silver; all engaged in the surpassing pleasures of the table. Beyond?a jovial background of myriads of church-wardens against the wall. Unexceptionable waiters flitted to and fro. The erudite heart of Angus Bleak was uplifted, and he took pleasure in his life. And the striking reflection came to him that dinner, without doubt or exception, was the most remarkable institution in the world. The joyous grill room, however, (I am sorry to say) appeared to be quite full. As Mr. Bleakhesitated one of those noble serving men of a superior caste (of a degree of polish to be found in only six eating places in the world) came forward to give him obsequious welcome and to render him useful office. Deftly he convoyed Mr. Bleak to a single remaining unoccupied Windsor chair. As he received the menu card handed him Mr. Bleak's glance played upon the gentleman opposite who shared the little table with him; a very fat man, in a suit of arresting checks and a crimson tie, who wore on his lapel a gorgeous peony. Dinner, the thought occurred to Mr. Bleak, is the most ancient of institutions, far antedating that of the family. Mr. Bleak began his dinner with a van Court- land cocktail, which, you will recall, was the patrician thing in cocktails at that moment (June, 1914). The desire to dine, so ran his thought, is the first instinct to be aroused in animal life; it is the strongest instinct, deman...

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