Max Havelaar; or, The coffee sales of the Netherlands Trading Company, by Multatuli, pseud.

And the black coffee made by Mary and served in the orchard afterward was perfection too.

After they had drunk Mary's coffee the Vicar strolled away to his study so as to leave Rowcliffe alone with Mary, and Alice strolled away heaven knew where so as to leave Mary alone with Rowcliffe.

Two ladies came out of an arbour where they had been drinking coffee, and sauntered towards the hotel.

On arriving at the trenches they would find the men they were to relieve ready to march out, to slip and slide down the hill to the railway, where they would have their morning coffee, and await the train for Meaux, where they were due at noon next daybarring delays.

When I got downstairs I found the house warm and coffee ready.

I knew partly what was in that bag, and it was every bit as heavy as the horse's fodder, for there were sandwiches, sugar, coffee, chocolate, tinned meat, peas, corn, fruit, etc.

Breakfast finished, he pulled his coffee over, lit a cigar and puffed luxuriously.

CHAPTER VII Mr. Chalk made but a poor breakfast next morning, the effort to display a feeling of proper sympathy with Mrs. Chalk, who was presiding in gloomy silence at the coffee-pot, and at the same time to maintain an air of cheerful innocence as to the cause of her behaviour, being almost beyond his powers.

To cover his discomfiture he passed his cup up for more coffee, shivering despite himself, as he noticed the elaborate care which Mrs. Chalk displayed in rinsing out the cup and filling it to the very brim.

[Illustration: "He passed his cup up for more coffee.

" They made their way to the "King of Hanover," an old inn, perched on the side of the harbour, and, mounting the stairs, entered the coffee-room, where Mr. Stobell, after hesitating for some time between the rival claims of roast beef and grilled chops, solved the difficulty by ordering both.

"Or a coffee-pot, or" The stout matron advanced upon her, and her mien was so terrible that the other, retreating to her house, slammed the door behind her and continued the discussion from a first-floor window.

"We don't drink it ourselves, except in tea or coffee; the cap'n says it ain't safe.

In point of fact, however, bottles and coffee-pots empty themselves by a finite number of decrements, each of definite amount.

The meal consisted of corn bread, bacon, potatoes and coffee.

I enjoyed all but the coffee, which had a rich brown color, but when I sipped it there was such a bitter taste I surely thought there must be quinine in it, and it made me shiver.

"Coffee," said he, but I had never seen any that tasted like that and never knew my father to buy any such coffee as that.

"Coffee," said he, but I had never seen any that tasted like that and never knew my father to buy any such coffee as that.

We had plenty of corn bread, venison and coffee, and lived well.

Before I could resume my journey snow had fallen to the depth of about six inches, which made it rather unpleasant walking, but in a few days I reached Mr. Henry's camp in "Kentuck Grove," when after comparing notes, we both began swinging our axes and piling up cordwood, cooking potatoes, bread, bacon, coffee and flapjacks ourselves, which we enjoyed with a relish.

We had some supper consisting of some very poor coffee, crackers, and a couple of eggs apiece, and had to sleep out under a tree where we knew we might find lizards, snakes, and other poisonous reptiles, and perhaps a thieving monkey might pick our pockets while we slept.

We piled our blankets in a pack upon the gentle, four-ounce donkey, and added a little tea and coffee, dried beef and bread, then started for the Yuba River, ourselves on foot.

We all fell a-talking of my grandfather's fête de grandpère of next month, and went to have some coffee.

It was a frugal one, but more comfortable than formerly, and included coffee, that subject of just pride in Creole cookery.