There are two dining-tables in the same room; fourteen covers at each table.

Monsieur presides at one, Madame at the other.

The good cheer is prodigious; joints are carried away quite untouched, and as for the pyramids of fruit, the doors require to be heightened.

Our fathers did not foresee this sort of machine, indeed they did not even foresee that a door required to be higher than themselves.

Well, a pyramid wants to come in, one of those pyramids which make everybody exclaim from one end of the table to the other; but so far from that boding damage, people are often, on the contrary, very glad not to see any more of what they contain.