"Maitre d'" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one of our companions, who, upon entering the room, and seeing so many accommodations for repose, exclaimed, with the sharpness of appetite, "my good host, we want to eat, and not to sleep;" "gentlemen," said our mortified little maitre d'hotel, "this chamber is the dining room, and it is thought a very good one." From its appearance I should have believed him, had he sworn that it was the state room of the palace of this ancient principality, of which this wretched town ...
— The Stranger in France • John Carr
... character, and the next day at three o'clock, instead of seeing me herself, sent me ten guineas in a note, by her French maitre d'hotel; which chinked as they slided from side to side, and proclaimed me a pauper! My heart almost burst with indignation! Yet, coward that I was! I wanted the fortitude to refuse the polluted paper! I thought it would be an affront, and still fed myself with the vain hope of procuring from ...
— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft
... allait le servir, un chien emporta tout a coup le poulet. Quand ses gens s'en apercurent, ils en furent tout desoles, et pour tacher de reparer le malheur ils se haterent d'en remettre au plus tot un autre a la broche. Le cardinal demanda qu'on lui servit[1] tout de suite son poulet. Le maitre d'hotel, prevoyant la terrible fureur du ministre si on lui disait le fait, ou si on lui proposait d'attendre plus tard qu'a l'heure ordinaire, prend immediatement son parti, et lui dit avec sang-froid: "Monseigneur, vous avez soupe.—J'ai soupe?—Sans ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann |
