This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...fried and swimming in their own coarse fat. And her tea and coffee: if anything could be worse than the tea, was it not the coffee--muddy, flavourless, and usually tepid? "The best cooks, to my mind, are the Italians, --better tempered than Frenchmen, more patient, and less nonsense about them. French cooks are perfect ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...fried and swimming in their own coarse fat. And her tea and coffee: if anything could be worse than the tea, was it not the coffee--muddy, flavourless, and usually tepid? "The best cooks, to my mind, are the Italians, --better tempered than Frenchmen, more patient, and less nonsense about them. French cooks are perfect devils to have in a house. The Lord Lieutenant brought over his own cook, a Neapolitan. I am told the dinners are something superb. By-the-bye, I hear his brown mare, the one entered for the Spring Meeting, has hurt her shoulder." "I don't know," returned the barrister carelessly; "I never was a horsy man, and anyhow the Castle doings are my aversion." "God knows, I'm glad to hear you say so," returned the broker. "It is something infernal the way they are discussed in Dublin, --it is such a little place, you see. You can't turn round without every one knowing it. The most intensely snobbish place I ever was in." "Yes," returned Hogan, "I go with you there. You see there are so many reasons for that. It could not fail to be what it is: I only wonder, all things considered, that it isn't worse." "Worse!--that would be hardly possible, I should fancy." "Bless us! yes, the root of it lies far back. You have to go back a century or more into the history of the country to see how deeply rooted is the class distinction between the two rival creeds. I assure you even Protestant tradesmen think they have the pull over, any E. C. And that is a thing always gathers force as it gets older. So long as the Protestants were the recognized superiors of the others, they were not nearly so stuck-up and exclusive. There was far more friendly intercourse; and, in fact, there were...
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