...rsist in going to see; whereas a man would have a much better insight into Portuguese manners, by planting himself at a corner, like yon- der beggar, ... ...pictures of the Duke of Wellington, done in a very characteristic style of Portuguese art. There is also a chapel, which has been decorated with much... ...le vessel, with a huge shining lateen sail, and bearing the blue and white Portuguese flag, was seen playing a sort of leap-frog on the jolly waves, j... ...uffed with forced-meats; yellow smoking pilaffs, the pride of the Oriental cuisine; kid and fowls a l’Aboukir and a la Pyramide:a number of little sav...

...hese foreign marriages!” Mrs. Archer ignored the allusion to the ancestral cuisine and Mr. Jackson continued with deliberation: “No, she was not at th... ...ellum book that Archer had sent her the week before (the “Sonnets from the Portuguese”); but she was learning by heart “How they brought the Good News...