Penny Blood Serial Cover — page 94: what you’re looking at

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86 ALFRED DE ROSANN. he reached forward his hand to grasp the utensil, when the machine snapped with a rattle, and the gastrono- mer gave a terrible cry, as if he were bitten by a ser- ent. re Diable!’’? exclaimed Belle-Rose: “ what’s. the matter now?’’ ‘“ My hand! my hand!’ yelled Champignon. “As Iam a living being he has caught his arm In a rat-trap,’’ said De Rosann, hastening to disengage the ex-restaurateur’s member from so ignoble a jeopardy. “Thank God!” ejaculated Champignon, when he had regained the free exercise of his hand; “ these digits were meant to pluck partridges and pigeons, and not to be caught in rat-traps. A man may as soon think of finding a poulet truffé on a ploughman’s table; as a wash-hand-stand in a cachot.’’ “When you leave the galleys, Champignon, you must give lectures on gastronomy,” said Belle-Rose. “You are laughing at me, my friend; but I would wager a mess of pieds de mouton against a plate of soupe maigre that you do not know how many dif- ferent dishes there are in the French kitchen—that is, in how many different ways you may dress veal, beef, mutton, pork, game, poultry, fish, and eggs.” “Fifty, [ suppose,’’? returned Pierre, carelessly. “Three hundred and sixty-five!”? cried Champig- non, In a tone of triumph. ‘And your cofelettes & la quadrille form the three hundred and sixty-sixth,’’ added Belle-Rose. The arrival of the gaoler to unlock the dungeon- door put an end to this colloquy, much to the regret of Champignon, who was about to commence a long harangue on the excellence of his new discovery, and the importance of it to the culinary world. Through the aid of some money which Belle-Rose produced _ from the purse he had obtained’ at Versailles, a com- fortable breakfast was procured for the three prisoners by the avaricious gaoler, whose countenance wore a smile or a frown according to the means of those in his custody. De Rosann ate but little: Leblond’s CORNIClOO KS. CO) nm