when she sat down to dinner, before the round table covered with a table cloth three days old,opposite her husband, who uncovered the soup-tureen and declared with an enchanted air, "Ah,the good pot-au-feu!I don't know anything better than that,She thought of dainty dinners of shinning silverware of tapestry which peopled the walls with ancient personages and with strange birds flying in the midst of a fairy forest;