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they were indolently playing with the gilded blades of their dessert.html">dessert-
be seen to play with a pear seed; others roll crumbs of bread between
fragments of fruit; misers count the stones on their plate and arrange
stage. These are little gastronomic felicities which Brillat-Savarin,
had disappeared. The dessert was like a squadron after a battle: all
around the table, in spite of the efforts of the mistress of the house
at pictures of Swiss scenery, symmetrically hung upon the gray-toned
never yet knew a man who was sad during his digestion of a good.html">good
middle ground between the reverie of a thinker and the comfort of the
melancholy of gastronomy.
So the guests now turned spontaneously to the excellent German,
no interest. During this blessed interregnum the voice of a narrator
negative happiness. I, a seeker after impressions, admired the faces
candles, and somewhat flushed by our late good cheer; their diverse
baskets, the fruits, the glasses, and the candelabra.
All of a sudden my imagination was caught by the aspect of a guest who
and smiling, having the air and manner of a stock-broker, and
noticed him, but now his face, possibly darkened by a change in the
grown ghastly; violet tones were spreading over it; you might have
personages painted on a diorama, his stupefied eyes were fixed on the
observing them; he seemed to be engulfed in some weird contemplation
I began to reflect about it. "Is he ill?" I said to myself. "Has he
thinking how to cheat his. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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