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Out on the land the tally is greatest of all. Every woman from the village bends over the bosom of France, urging fertility. The government called them in the first hours of the conflict. Viviani spoke the word: "The departure for the army of all those who can carry arms, leaves the work in the fields undone; the harvest is not yet gathered in; the vintage season is near.
My Scharzberger of '96 must also be rescued, so far as our earnest and united efforts can do it, from what would be a deplorable waste of a great vintage." He levered his great bulk off the desk, upon which he had sat while he announced the doom of the planet. "Come," said he. "If there is little time left, there is the more need that we should spend it in sober and reasonable enjoyment."
"It has been quite a treat for me." Sabatini and Starling were talking earnestly together at the other side of the table. Rosario, bringing his wine down, came and sat at his host's other side. "Beautiful vintage, this, Mr. Weatherley," he said. "Excellent condition, too." Mr. Weatherley, obviously pleased, pursued the subject.
It is "ask and have" with this man. Like Mephistopheles in the Raths-Keller, he gives us what vintage we call for. Olalla is an instance in point. Any one familiar with Mérimée's stories will smile at the naïveté with which Stevenson has taken the leading idea of Lokis, and surrounded it with the Spanish sunshine of Carmen.
In September, Chicot received the following letter, dated from the Priory of Beaume: "DEAR M. CHICOT The air is soft in this place, and the vintage promises to be good this year. They say that the king, whose life I saved, still grieves much.
"The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields; With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day and skies of azure hue; Scent the new fragrance of the opening rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows." See Gray's Poems, published by Mr. Mason, p. 197.
He took very little alcohol, and that only in the form of light wines, such as claret or hock, seldom more than a single small glass at lunch and at dinner. Whenever he found a vintage which specially appealed to him he would tell the butler to send a case or two to some old friend in America, to some member of his family or to one of the staff of The World. After lunch Mr.
Io whose silence was surrounding him with a cold terror.... He had to get home and dress for that cursed dinner! Marrineal had done the thing quite royally. The room was superb with flowers; the menu the best devisable; the wines not wide of range, but choice of vintage. The music was by professionals of the first grade, willing to give their favors to these powerful men of the press.
During the early days of his success he was disposed to overindulgence, not to say conviviality. He was fond of Rhine wines and an excellent judge of them, keeping a varied assortment always at hand. Once, upon the Liberty, he observed that I preferred a certain vintage. "You like this wine?" he said inquiringly.
If the boy was mine I'd give 'im a good spankin' in public, and maybe that ud shame Carrie into behavin' herself." "If I could get you to help I think I could work a change in the thing, anyway," Henley said, persuasively. "Me, Alf?" "Yes, it's just this way, Jim, with a woman of that brand and vintage," Henley pursued.
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