Modern Art Painting

Modern Art Painting
A coloured advertisement lauded the many merits of a new vermouth. On the mantelpiece was arrayed the innkeeper's collection of figured earthenware pots and stone jugs.
"That's a fine fire for roasting a chicken," said Rouletabille. "We have no chicken - not even a wretched rabbit," said the landlord.
Modern Art Painting
"I know," said my friend slowly; "I know - We shall have to eat red meat - now."
I confess I did not in the least understand what Rouletabille meant by what he had said; but the landlord, as soon as he heard the words, uttered an oath, which he at once stifled, and placed himself at our orders as obediently as Monsieur Robert Darzac had done, when he heard Rouletabille's Modern Art Painting