The Arrival Of Two Prelates,
Bishop Plessis And Bishop Mountain, Gave Us The Solution Of The
Enigma; An Aide-De-Camp Had Motioned To The Bandmaster To Stop On
Noticing The Entrance Of The Two High Dignitaries Of The Respective
Churches.
The dance was interrupted whilst they were there, and was
resumed on their departure.
Sir James had introduced this point of
etiquette from the respect he entertained for their persons.
"At three the loud sound of a hunters horn is heard in the distance;
all follow His Excellency in a path cut through the then virgin forest
of Powell Place. Some of the guests from the length of the walk, began
to think that Sir James had intended those who had not danced to take
a "constitutional" before dinner, when, on rounding an angle a huge
table, canopied with green boughs, groaning under the weight of
dishes, struck on their view - a grateful oasis in the desert. Monsieur
Petit, the chef de cuisine, had surpassed himself, like Vatel,
I imagine he would have committed suicide had he failed to achieve the
triumph by which he intended to elicit our praise. Nothing could
exceed in magnificence, in sumptuousness this repast - such was the
opinion not only of Canadians, for whom such displays were new, but
also of the European guests, though there was a slight drawback to the
perfect enjoyment of the dishes - the materials which composed them
we could not recognize, so great was the artistic skill, so
wonderful the manipulations of Monsieur Petit, the French cook.
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