They gave her dinner, and she entranced and appalled the company by laying into the goods like a starving python; as
Stanley reported: “She ate like a
gourmande, disposing of what came before her without regard to the horrified looks . . . pudding before beef, blancmange with potatoes . . . emitting labial smacks like pistol cracks.”
Flashman on the March,
p.283,
Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.
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