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Fin´ick`ing
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I speak not of the finicking joy of the gourmet, but the joy of an honest appetite in ecstasy, the elemental joy of absorbing quantities of fresh simple food,--mere roast lamb, new potatoes, and peas of living green. He kept his ship in apple-pie order, which would have been seamanlike enough but for a finicking touch in its details. After all, one drinks tea largely to please one's fellow men, Barbara, and to give oneself tone and an air of gentility(though, of myself, I care little about such things, for I am not a man of the finicking sort). |
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