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It's a good fit for me, Courtois Aimé is what they call me Aimé, that's the Christian name, fine for an unlucky fellow like me, and Courtois on the top of it. Queer enough, isn't it?... I never had a family, came out of an Orphan Asylum; my foster-father, a farmer down in Champagne, offered to bring me up; and you can bet he did it!
Let him give me the chance, and I will give him the back of my hand. Hang it, Paul, what made you interfere?" "I have a prior claim. You recollect it well enough. He spoke lightly of the conduct of Mademoiselle de Longueville, and I threw a glass of champagne in his face. You had best decline to measure swords with the vicomte." "Horns of Panurge! Some of these broken gentlemen doubt my ability.
"Yes," continued the fat gentlemen, "and would you believe that in the mass of debts there are nine hundred dollars for credit and five thousand dollars for champagne. And now all his creditors stand there prettily and open their mouths; all the thing in the house are hardly worth two farthings; and out of the house they find, as the only indemnification a calash!"
"You read Omar Khayyam?" he said, holding the book in his hand. Thornton stopped staring at the ceiling and sat forward with his elbows resting on his knees. "Yes," he answered; "at least, I used to until I knew it by heart." "He's a good brand of champagne," Jack went on. "Are you a friend of Dennison's?" Thornton asked, and there was a kind of hunted look in his eyes.
"This is champagne; drink it, and tell me what you think of it." "All my people are Mahommedans; we do not drink wine," Saidie replied, taking up the glass and sipping from it. "Perhaps you won't like it," he suggested, watching her.
He'll be all right if he'll let the champagne alone before he starts to play. I'm banking on him. At the same time I haven't bet all my money. I've a ten spot left that says I can beat you to the clubhouse, even if one of my cylinders has been missing the last two miles. How about it?" "You're on!" said Harry Bartlett shortly.
I remember once, Johnny Courtland and I, after dining at my house, till the champagne had played the dancing-master to our brains, mounted our horses, and rode twenty miles for a cool thousand the winner.
And if the old man had had about a bottle of champagne, he'd say, "Yes, I'll take him for a premium," or if he'd had two bottles, he'd say, "Send along your new chum I'll make a man of him or break his neck." And perhaps in the next steamer out the fellow comes, and Grant just passes him on to me. Never looks at him, as likely as not. Don't you bother your head about Grant you come with me."
But the duke has pushed them strongly on the right flank; and, as you may perceive, the attack goes on in force." He pointed to the entrance of one of the defiles, where several columns were in movement, and where the smoke of the firing lay heavily above the trees. He then laid his watch on the table beside our champagne flask. "The time is come to execute another portion of my orders.
But the band heard nothing but their own instruments, and Richard stood looking on, feeling faint and more weary than ever, and paying no heed to the glass of champagne the servant had placed upon a side-table near him, for he had been busy fitting together his flute.