Olive-oil is a pure, savory seasoning." "For a man that likes it.

I commend Holland butter.

Olive-oil has its value for polishing steel, but butter is the right thing for roasting and frying; so that's enough! But I beg you to hear me farther.

From Lombardy I went to Bologna, and then crossed the Apennines.

Sometimes the road ascended, then suddenly plunged downward again, and it's a queer pleasure, which, thank God, we are spared in this country, to sit in the saddle going down a mountain.