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At half-past ten late hours for the square there appeared a little tray of sandwiches and a bowl of bishop, which bishop coming on the top of the double-diamond, and other excitements, had such an effect upon Tim Linkinwater, that he drew Nicholas aside, and gave him to understand, confidentially, that it was quite true about the uncommonly handsome spinster, and that she was to the full as good-looking as she had been described more so, indeed but that she was in too much of a hurry to change her condition, and consequently, while Tim was courting her and thinking of changing his, got married to somebody else.
But there was no time to moralise, for the joviality again became very brisk, and the decanter of port being nearly out, brother Ned pulled the bell, which was instantly answered by the apoplectic butler. 'David, said brother Ned. 'Sir, replied the butler. 'A magnum of the double-diamond, David, to drink the health of Mr Linkinwater.
'You'd be troubled to find such a glass of wine as is our double-diamond, and that Mr Linkinwater knows very well. That was laid down when Mr Linkinwater first come: that wine was, gentlemen. 'Nay, David, nay, interposed brother Charles. 'I wrote the entry in the cellar-book myself, sir, if you please, said David, in the tone of a man, quite confident in the strength of his facts.
'Mr Linkinwater had only been here twenty year, sir, when that pipe of double-diamond was laid down. 'David is quite right, quite right, brother Charles, said Ned: 'are the people here, David? 'Outside the door, sir, replied the butler. 'Show 'em in, David, show 'em in.
'Seven, said brother Ned, filling a corresponding number of glasses with the double-diamond, 'and David, eight. There! Now, you're all of you to drink the health of your best friend Mr Timothy Linkinwater, and wish him health and long life and many happy returns of this day, both for his own sake and that of your old masters, who consider him an inestimable treasure.
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