Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Participants share two sentences from a random page of their current books.

I’ve been working my way through my current challenges in preparation for a new one: the Women Unbound Challenge!  I’m about finished with Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.  Here’s a tease:

He plainly wished to talk of his own affairs; they could wait, I thought, for the hour of tolerance and repletion, for the cognac; they could wait until the attention was blunted and one could listen with half the mind only; now in the keen moment when the maitre d’hotel was turning the blinis over in the pan, and in the background, two humbler men were preparing the press, we would talk of myself.

“Did you stay long at Brideshead? Was my name mentioned after I left?” (p. 172)

This passage continues with one of the best descriptions of a good meal that I have read in ages.  I always love it when characters in novels are well-fed.  What’s your tease today?

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