For my part, I have an original prejudice
against animal food which I have never quite overcome, and I believe
it is only to please Lady Annabel that I have relapsed into the heresy
of cutlets.'
'Do you think I have grown fatter, Lady Annabel?' said Lord Cadurcis,
starting up; 'I brought myself down at Athens to bread and olives, but
I have been committing terrible excesses lately, but only fish.'
'Ah! here is George!' said Lady Annabel.
And Captain Cadurcis appeared, followed by a couple of sailors,
bearing a huge case.
'George,' said Venetia, 'I have been defending you against
Plantagenet; he said you would not come.'
'Never mind, George, it was only behind your back,' said Lord
Cadurcis; 'and, under those legitimate circumstances, why even our
best friends cannot expect us to spare them.'
'I have brought Venetia her toys,' said Captain Cadurcis, 'and she was
right to defend me, as I have been working for her.'
The top of the case was knocked off, and all the Turkish buffooneries,
as Cadurcis called them, made their appearance: slippers, and shawls,
and bottles of perfumes, and little hand mirrors, beautifully
embroidered; and fanciful daggers, and rosaries, and a thousand other
articles, of which they had plundered the bazaars of Constantinople.
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