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Excerpt from An Idler in Spain: The Record of a Goya Pilgrimage
Baedeker, discreetly emotional, may star and treble-star his sights and sensations - but confess (candidly now!) is there a Single one of them that has ever communicated to you quite the same thrill of buoyant elation as that first apparition of the littletray, on which repose the twin jugs of coffee and milk, the fresh spirals of butter (somehow never quite sufficient for the ?aky roll, the latter half of which always goes butterless), the neat cubes of sugar, the tall, thick-lipped breakfast cup, into which is tucked the unnecessary but quite indispensable napkin This last, to be entirely satisfactory to the connoisseur, should be slightly coarse and towel-like in texture and terminate in an incipient fringe. But on this, the first morning of our travels, let us not become too fastidious.
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