And youyou approach me, after I don't dare to think how many years, as calmly as if I were an old schoolmate of your mother's, and attempt to talk to me about mutton-chops!

MUTTON-CHOPS.

"A plain, solid person, well dressed, but simple; mutton-chop whiskers; and the manners of aa" "Bear!" said a soft female voice.

Then turning to our marshal, he said, "Take Jack into Baron Pollock's room"the Baron had just gone in to lunch, for he was always punctual to a minute"and ask him to give him a mutton-chop.

'tis cruel so to do, Though often weak and ill, For they my plaints would stop, with a juicy mutton-chop, Or a mild and savoury pill!

In his large, brown eyes an expression of moving melancholy was established; a nervous tremulousness almost twitched his refined lips, which, to my surprise, were not concealed by the universal moustache,indeed, the smooth chin and symmetrically trimmed mutton-chop whiskers, in the orthodox English mode, showed that the man shaved.

Though he speaks with gusto of Lord Holland's turtle and turbot and venison and grouse, he was content when alone with a mutton-chop and a few glasses of sherry, or the October ale of Cambridge, which was a part of his perquisites as Fellow.

The latter sport is certainly blameless; nay, in the West Indies, laudable and even heroic, when played, as on the Savanna here, under a noonday sun which feels hot enough to cook a mutton-chop.

One, I remember, was an elderly, florid man, with mutton-chop whiskers and a buff waistcoat, who took his stand beside the fireplace at the further end of the room and puffed away at a big cigar.

Only one gentleman, a short dapper individual with mutton-chop whiskers (Wareham suggested that he looked like a barrister), paid any attention to the master, and, it may be, recognised him.

Choice mutton-chops, beef-steaks and similar dainties comprise their daily portion.

I'll wait here and we'll have a mutton-chop when you come in.

'Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away;' and so the pieces paid for the ransom of the Inca of Peru or Richard the Lion-hearted, the material of the spurs of Agincourt, the rings of Cleopatra and Zenobia, the golden targets of Solomon, fashioned from the treasures of Ophir, may purchase soap and candles and mutton-chops for John Smith.

The cold mutton-chop with its opaque fat, the beef with its caked gravy, the arrowroot stiff and glazed, all untouched, might be seen by the bedsides in the afternoons, while the patients were lying back, sinking for want of support.

Its fiends are the stewards who rouse us from our perpetual torpor with offers of food and praises of shadowy banquets,"Nice mutton-chop, Sir? roast-turkey? plate of soup?"

The Leicester and Southdowns afford the best mutton-chops.

But I thought of a mutton-chop for the major sahib.

Could get nothing but mutton-chops off the worst end.

As soon as Mr. Barry had gone, he had supported nature by a mutton-chop and a glass of sherry, and the debris were now lying on the side-table.

Then Matthew retired, and the Squire of Buston felt that five minutes might be allowed to collect himself, and the mutton-chop bone need not be removed.

"Are you looking for that little old man with the Henry Clay collar and the white mutton-chop whiskers?" "I certainly am.

If he groans and turns over to the wall, I know that it is only hash, and I echo his groan and follow his example; but if he smiles, and gets up, I do likewise, with the full assurance of fresh mutton-chops or rice curry and chicken.

The father talked so much that his daughter Edith took the carving-fork from him and served out the mutton-chops herself.

When I got back to my observatory, I found Mr. Jay digesting his mutton-chops in an arm-chair, with his pipe in his mouth.

But how often do we hear a mutton-chop, an egg, a bit of bacon, ordered to a patient for breakfast, to whom (as a moment's consideration would show us) it must be quite impossible to masticate such things at that hour.