I know no ceremony that ladies are bound to observe to their husbands, beyond the point of a modest behaviour and decorum: therefore I must protest against the vicarious gluttony of Cerasia, who at her own table sent away a dish of Morellas, which I was applying to with great good will, to her husband at the other end of the table, and recommended a plate of less extraordinary gooseberries to my unwedded palate in their stead.

I said something about their gluttony to M. de Villeton this morningand he fired up!declared he had spent this summer in English country-houses, and we had seven meals a dayall toldand there wasn't a Frenchman in the world had more than threecounting his coffee in the morning.'

He debauches his gluttony with an unnatural appetite to things never intended for food, like preposterous venery or the unnatural mixtures of beasts of several kinds.