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After following the ravine through the top, I found the spring, drank heartily, filled my bottles, and started on my return trip. I arrived at the place where I had left my men, just as the day was breaking. After giving them a good drink, I gave some to each of the animals, any one of which would drink from a canteen or bottle.
'Now, really, Madam confound it my dear, good lady you see this will never do' he was uncorking and smelling at the bottles in search of 'the drops' 'and and here they are and isn't it better, Ma'am, you should be well and hearty here drink this when when he comes back don't you see than a a 'But oh, I wish I could tell you. She said she said the the oh, you don't know 'She who?
That was a neat hit; it made the color come. "It varieth somewhat, but not much; one may say seventy-five milrays the pound." "We pay thirty-three. What do you pay for eggs?" "Fifty milrays the dozen." "We pay twenty. What do you pay for beer?" "It costeth us eight and one-half milrays the pint." "We get it for four; twenty-five bottles for a cent. What do you pay for wheat?"
He went to the table, searched among the bottles till he found one that still contained brandy, poured the contents into a glass and drank with feverish eagerness. "That'll put a little life in me," he muttered. "Well, there is nothing for it but to wait. I must keep myself very quiet. I think I'll have some breakfast at any rate I can afford to leave this den."
On the morning of the 20th I started out accompanied by Forsyth and Sir Henry Havelock, and took the road through Boissy St. George, Boissy St. Martins and Noisy Le Grand to Brie. Almost every foot of the way was strewn with fragments of glass from wine bottles, emptied and then broken by the troops.
It would prove suitable for her honeymoon, and it was with not a little regret that he felt bound to order the initials "B. R." to be engraved on the gold stoppers of the bottles, instead of "B. F." The alteration could, however, no doubt be made in due season.
"Bring a dozen bottles," Maurice suggested, having an idea in mind. "Eh?" "Remember, Colonel, I've been a soldier and a journalist in a country where they only wash with water. In the summer we have whisky iced, in the winter we have it hot; an antidote for both heat and cold. Ah, Colonel, if you only might sniff a mint julep!"
We had here a repast of bread, grapes, and a sweet wine peculiar to the country, but the name of which I have not noted; and though together with our servants we drank nearly four quart bottles, and ate a good quantity of grapes and bread, our reckoning did not exceed seven francs. Nothing indeed surprised me so much as the uncommon cheapness in this country.
The idea is to run it as an ad, with a caption under it something like this: 'The Kaiser Wilhelm reaching New York with twenty thousand bottles of Peevey's Best, direct from Paris." "The Kaiser Wilhelm," said the captain ponderously, "is a German boat. She docks in Hoboken, my friend." "Of course she does," said Abner.
'You're a boy of business, you are, sir! said Mr Willet, disdainfully, 'to go supposing that wintners care for nosegays. 'I don't suppose anything of the kind, returned Joe. 'Let them keep their red noses for bottles and tankards. These are going to Mr Varden's house. 'And do you suppose HE minds such things as crocuses? demanded John.
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