William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity fair (№ 247325)

She woke up the husband and made him a Cup of the most delicious coffee which can be found in this morning in Brussels. And who will deny that all these preparations of the worthy lady as well proved her love as tears and tantrums are more sensitive to women, and that Cup of coffee in company with his wife, while across the city trumpeting the collection of horns and beating drums, not in the example more useful and more to the place than empty outpouring of feelings?