should all be placed in a wire-basket, and put into boiling water. Boil
them two minutes and three-quarters precisely.
Lord Chesterfield said it was only necessary for him to see a person at
table to tell if he were a gentleman. He must have had a fine
opportunity for observation when boiled eggs were served. It seems
nonsense (and it is nonsense) when I say that the fashionable world
abroad and their imitators here consider it insufferably _gauche_ to
serve a boiled egg but in one stereotyped way, _i. e._, in the smallest
of egg-cups. The top of the egg is cut off with a knife, and with a
little egg-spoon, dipped into salt when necessary, the egg is eaten from
the shell. I really can not see that it matters much whether an egg is
eaten from an egg-glass, or in the little egg-cups from the shell,
unless one prefers to be in the fashion, when it requires no more
trouble.