Substantial Dishes

A Portuguese Supper Party

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‘The play ended, we hastened back to the palace,
and traversing a number of dark vestibules and
guard-chambers (all of a snore with jaded
equeries) were almost blinded with a blaze of
light from the room in which supper was served
up. There we found in addition to all the
Marialvas, the old marquis only excepted, the
Camareira-mor, and five or six other hags of
supreme quality, feeding like cormorants upon a
variety of high-coloured and high-seasoned
dishes. I suppose the keen air from the Tagus,
which blows right into the palace-windows,
operates as a powerful whet, for I never beheld
eaters or eateresses, no, not even our old