Many Celebrities And a Few Others : a Bundle of Reminiscences
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What memories of profitable and improving evenings of Victorian propriety and New England inexpensiveness the old Music Hall, that temple of chaste delights and continent intellectuahty, brings up! But I must come back to Snell, to tell a story of him. He Kved in the Studio Building, environed by the ac- cumulations of a discreet taste and ample means; he was sufficient to himself beyond other detached men in that he was a gastronomer who had not only a palate and an appreciation, but the gift ...of gratifying both through his own skill in the kitchen. A cook was superfluous to [189] MANY CELEBRITIES AND A FEW OTHERS him; I believe he was prouder of his epicurean talent than of his architecture. One evening he met Bernard Carpenter and me on our return from a country wedding, and insisted that we should dine with him in his studio, which we were all the readier to do since we had missed our luncheon, and, after trifling with salads and strawberries, were very hungry. His little dining-room would have provoked an appetite had we not brought it with us.
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