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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: at himself with a very good grace; while Giardini confessed that his
culinary innovations were not worth a rush. Andrea had neglected
nothing that could contribute to this twofold miracle. The wines of
Orvieto and of Montefiascone, conveyed with the peculiar care needed
in moving them, Lachrymachristi and Giro,--all the heady liqueurs of
/la cara Patria/,--went to their brains with the intoxication alike of
the grape and of fond memory. At dessert the musician and the cook
both abjured every heresy; one was humming a /cavatina/ by Rossini,
and the other piling delicacies on his plate and washing them down
with Maraschino from Zara, to the prosperity of the French /cuisine/.
The Count took advantage of this happy frame of mind, and Gambara
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