The dessert was pretty good, but the meal was comme ci comme ça.

Here some... Look dreadful gay in their own sparkling blood.

I'd 'ave sooner had 'un of anybody else, said he, but thur war nur anuther to be had, and it bean't such a bad 'un nither, only Measter Humphreys be hardish in the mouth.

Dredge the meat with the flour mixture you prepared earlier.