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Article A FRENCH NOVELIST OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. ← Page 9 of 12 →
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A French Novelist Of The Seventeenth Century.
delivered from this state of physical and moral thraldom , by chancing to encounter an individual , a native of the sun , Avho had emigrated to earth , where he had been the familiar genius of Socrates ; at whose death , being of a restless and wandering disposition , he had finally sought a new home in the moon . This nomadic demonhaving taken a great fancy to the
per-, secuted stranger , succeeded in effecting his escape from his tyrants ; and finally proposed to conduct him to the lunar metropolis , an offer which Bergerac at once accepted . While on their journey they entered an hotel for rest and refreshment ; and the description of this establishment is so quaint and fancifulthat I shall ive it in our author ' s OAVU Avords .
, g " They came to summon us to table , " he says ; " and I followed my conductor into a saloon richly furnished , where , however , I saw nothing prepared for us to eat . Such a solitude of meat , when I was perishing with hunger , induced me to inquire where they had laid the cloth . I did not , however , listen to his reply , for at that instant three or four waiters , by desire of the
landlord , approached me , and with great civility removed all my clothes . This new ceremony surprised me so greatly , that I do not know how my guide , who asked me by what I woulcl commence my meal , was able to wring from me the words , some soup . I had scarcely uttered them , however , before I became conscious of the most delicious and succulent savour that ever
greeted the nostrils of a wealthy glutton . I was anxious to rise from my seat , to seek at once the source of this agreeable vapour , but my new friend prevented me . ' Where do you want to go ? ' he asked ; " we will take a walk presently , but now it is time to eat ; finish your soup , ancl then we will send for something else . ' And where the devil is the soup ? ' I rejoined ,
almost angrily ! ' What ! ' he inquired , ' are you not aware that every one here lives on vapour ? The culinary art consists in inclosing in large vessels , which are moulded for that purpose , the exhalations which escape from the meat while cooking ; and when these have been combined , according to the taste of those who are to partake of them , the vessel is uncorked ; and this is done with each in succession , until the end of the repast . '
" He had no sooner given me this information than I felt so many agreeable and nourishing vapours enter the room , each in its turn , that in less than ten minutes my appetite was thoroughly appeased . ' This is not , ' he continued , ' a thing calculated to excite your astonishment , for you cannot have lived so long without having observed that in your own world the cooks and pastrycooks , who eat less than persons of other trades , are always much fatter ; and whence comes their corpulence , do you
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A French Novelist Of The Seventeenth Century.
delivered from this state of physical and moral thraldom , by chancing to encounter an individual , a native of the sun , Avho had emigrated to earth , where he had been the familiar genius of Socrates ; at whose death , being of a restless and wandering disposition , he had finally sought a new home in the moon . This nomadic demonhaving taken a great fancy to the
per-, secuted stranger , succeeded in effecting his escape from his tyrants ; and finally proposed to conduct him to the lunar metropolis , an offer which Bergerac at once accepted . While on their journey they entered an hotel for rest and refreshment ; and the description of this establishment is so quaint and fancifulthat I shall ive it in our author ' s OAVU Avords .
, g " They came to summon us to table , " he says ; " and I followed my conductor into a saloon richly furnished , where , however , I saw nothing prepared for us to eat . Such a solitude of meat , when I was perishing with hunger , induced me to inquire where they had laid the cloth . I did not , however , listen to his reply , for at that instant three or four waiters , by desire of the
landlord , approached me , and with great civility removed all my clothes . This new ceremony surprised me so greatly , that I do not know how my guide , who asked me by what I woulcl commence my meal , was able to wring from me the words , some soup . I had scarcely uttered them , however , before I became conscious of the most delicious and succulent savour that ever
greeted the nostrils of a wealthy glutton . I was anxious to rise from my seat , to seek at once the source of this agreeable vapour , but my new friend prevented me . ' Where do you want to go ? ' he asked ; " we will take a walk presently , but now it is time to eat ; finish your soup , ancl then we will send for something else . ' And where the devil is the soup ? ' I rejoined ,
almost angrily ! ' What ! ' he inquired , ' are you not aware that every one here lives on vapour ? The culinary art consists in inclosing in large vessels , which are moulded for that purpose , the exhalations which escape from the meat while cooking ; and when these have been combined , according to the taste of those who are to partake of them , the vessel is uncorked ; and this is done with each in succession , until the end of the repast . '
" He had no sooner given me this information than I felt so many agreeable and nourishing vapours enter the room , each in its turn , that in less than ten minutes my appetite was thoroughly appeased . ' This is not , ' he continued , ' a thing calculated to excite your astonishment , for you cannot have lived so long without having observed that in your own world the cooks and pastrycooks , who eat less than persons of other trades , are always much fatter ; and whence comes their corpulence , do you