He returned with the tumbler full of pickled walnuts.

Alice emptied half a dozen into her plate, and put one of them whole into her mouth.

She would not have been a girl of her class if she had not relished this pungent dainty.

Fish of any kind, green vegetables, eggs and bacon, with all these a drench of vinegar was indispensable to her.

And she proceeded to eat a supper scarcely less substantial than that which had appeased her brother's appetite.