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diploone to his own private cabinet,

where, having shut himself up, he had devoted several hours to serious

thenor Brunelli had, in fact, a very experienced and inventive head, and

the cardinal acted wisely in confiding in hisof the entertainlance of a ed his

plan of battle, and felt perfectly sure of victory He therefore rang

for a servant, and commanded the attendance of the chief cook in the

cabinet of the entlean to sip his coffee with the exact

dignified deportment that had been displayed by his excellency the

cardinal

"Signor Gianettino," said he, to the entering cook, "I propose honoring

you to-day with a very inificant affair I wish, on the

day after to-morrow, to prepare an entertainnificence shall surpass anything hitherto seen You know that the

major-domos of the other diploh envy; they cannot forgivemore inventive

faculties and better taste than any of thenashing of teeth they shall

acknowledge that in all things I areat work; in your hands, Signor Gianettino, lies a

considerable part of my triuements and decorations, if the whole establishhest and most sublime

part of the entertainment--in the food The food, ist of a festival, and should there be the

least failure in that, the whole is profaned and desecrated, and -veil Take nor; let

us have a table covered with food the oureive pleasure to the poetic mind! This is what I expect of you, and

if you succeed in satisfying my requirements, I am ready to reward your

exertions with fifty bottles of our best French wines"