Identifier: argosythe43wood (find matches)
Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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n, pro-fusion of tomatoes—pommes damour, as the French poetically callthem—and large red capsicums. Tomatoes were a penny a pound,and this will give you some idea of prices in general. We weresolicited on all hands to buy; but disappointment, coupled withadmiration, followed in our wake. It was different in the fruit market. Here we found great trea-sures and abundance of temptation. Letters from Majorca. 293 The grapes I have already mentioned, and we did not scruple tothrow dignity to the winds and make pnuch of our opportunity.Bags were at a premium, and we had occasionally to put up withcabbage leaves. But what mattered, in a place where we wereunknown, and had only the gaze of the natives to confound us?)t is one of the charms of Mallorca that so long as you do notbreak the Commandments, or set the Catechism at defiance, youmay do what you will. H. C. carried the spoils, and was very careful that—to quote forthe third time the inevitable Mrs. Gamp—I should eat fair of the
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The Oval Cloisters. fruit that she preferred in the more liquid torm. But you will notbe surprised to hear that he acted Mrs. Prig on this occasion, who,in absence of mind, replenished her cup too often. This dissolvedtheir friendship : ours fortunately exists on a sounder basis. One man had a stall of pomegranates, large, red, luscious. Theseh-e was selling at a halfpenny each. An honest man, too, for whenwe wanted to pay him a trifle more than his charge, for a slightservice rendered, he put back the coin into our hands. He dexterously opened the pomegranates and prepared them inthe most convenient form for eating, thoroughly enjoying our appre-ciation of the fruit and of his cleverness. Apples and oranges alsoabounded ; and though the oranges were scarcely ripe, they gave outan exquisite flavour and perfume unknown to England. 294 Letters from Majorca. It was a very animated scene, though not exactly one of pompand pageantry. The crowd was actively employed, each doing his-best for

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