He's jest the feller, who, knowing you and me might feel kinder restrained about indulging our appetites afore him, kinder drops out easy, and leaves us alone." And she was impressed by an instinct that the speaker really felt the delicacy he spoke of, and that it left no sense of inferiority behind.
The dinner, served in a large, brilliantly-lit saloon, that in floral decoration and gilded columns suggested an ingenious blending of a steamboat table d'hote and "harvest home," was perfect in its cuisine, even if somewhat extravagant in its proportions.
"I should be glad to receive the salary that Rushbrook pays his chef, and still happier to know how to earn it as fairly," said Somers to his fair companion.
"But is his skill entirely appreciated here ?" she asked.
"Perfectly," responded Somers.

"Our friend from Siskyou over there appreciates that 'pate' which he cannot name as well as I do.

Rushbrook himself is the only exception, yet I fancy that even HIS simplicity and regularity in feeding is as much a matter of business with him as any defect in his earlier education.

In his eyes, his chef's greatest qualification is his promptness and fertility.

Have you noticed that ornament before you ?" pointing to an elaborate confection.