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were made in England; the vegetables, peas, and toma- 

 toes grew a thousand miles off in Bermuda; the ancho- 

 vies came from the Baltic ; the olives from the Mediter- 

 ranean ; the wine Where did that red wine come from, 

 Philip ?" 



PHILIP. " From the remotest borders of Europe. It is 

 the only Hungarian wine I ever drank that I liked. It 

 is Turkenblud, the blood of the Turks, and only one vine- 

 yard grows that quality. The Effendi here sent to Hun- 

 gary for it." 



STEENBURGER. " We have had red wine from the land 

 of the ancient Scythians, and white wine from the banks 

 of the Rhine. The coffee was a mixture of Mocha and 

 Java Africa and the far Indies united for us to concoct 

 that tiny cup of beverage. The cup itself came from 

 China, made there two hundred years ago; no modern 

 work resembles that old ware; and the dinner was served 

 on dishes made in France, three thousand miles off across 

 the Atlantic. The fruits were from Havana ; there were 

 even some dates from Barbary, or the Eastern Mediter- 

 ranean, I don't know which." 



PHILIP. "They came from Mecca; Mohammed Abd- 

 el-Atti sent a skin of them to the Effendi, and rightly 

 said there are no such dates to be found out of Araby 

 the Blessed." 



STEEXBURGER. " There sits the Doctor, still sipping his 

 little glass of Chartreuse from a convent in the heart of 

 Europe. What had the Romans to compare with this, 

 a common American dinner in New York? Your par- 

 don, Philip it was a good dinner, but nothing extraor- 

 dinary." 



PHILIP. "You have not half enumerated the foreign 

 contributions to your feast. The table, the chairs, the 



