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'Here was the soup. It was a plain gravy soup. There was nothing to stir the fancy in that ... The plate was plain. Next came beef with its attendant greens and potatoes-a homely trinity, suggesting the rumps of cattle in a muddy market, and sprouts curled and yellowed at the edge, and bargaining and cheapening, and women with string bags on Monday morning.'