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Excerpt: ...Don't you?" A dignified waiter with a shaven upper lip and grey whiskers put a sauceboat on the table. "What's that you are serving?" asked Frolov. "Sauce Provencale for the herring, sir. . . ." "What is that the way to serve it?" shouted Frolov, not looking into the sauceboat. "Do you call that sauce? You don't know how to wait, you blockhead " Frolov's velvety eyes flashed. He twisted a corner of the table-cloth round his finger, made a slight movement, and the dishes, the candlesticks, and the bottles, all jingling and clattering, fell with a crash on the floor. The waiters, long accustomed to pot-house catastrophes, ran up to the table and began picking up the fragments with grave and unconcerned faces, like surgeons at an operation. "How well you know how to manage them " said Almer, and he laughed. "But . . . move a little away from the table or you will step in the caviare." "Call the engineer here " cried Frolov. This was the name given to a decrepit, doleful old man who really had once been an engineer and very well off; he had squandered all his property and towards the end of his life had got into a restaurant where he looked after the waiters and singers and carried out various commissions relating to the fair sex. Appearing at the summons, he put his head on one side respectfully. "Listen, my good man," Frolov said, addressing him. "What's the meaning of this disorder? How queerly you fellows wait Don't you know that I don't like it? Devil take you, I shall give up coming to you " "I beg you graciously to excuse it, Alexey Semyonitch " said the engineer, laying his hand on his heart. "I will take steps immediately, and your slightest wishes shall be carried out in the best and speediest way." "Well, that'll do, you can go. . . ." The engineer bowed, staggered back, still doubled up, and disappeared through the doorway with a final flash of the false diamonds on his shirt-front and fingers. The table was laid again. Almer drank red...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153720021 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153720027 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 108 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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