“You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.”
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“The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in a field instead of comfortably in the dining room.”
On a picnic, in Can You Forgive Her? (1864), Ch. 78
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