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It was the judge who was speaking he had not yet raised the thin glass to his lips; the old wine-taster was too absorbed in its rich amber color and in the delicate aroma, which was now reaching his nostrils. Indeed a new several new fragrances, were by this time permeating the room. "It is the same, judge, that I always give you." "Not your father's Black Warrior?" "Yes, the 1810.
No doubt a wine-taster could have told in an instant what sort had formerly filled the barrel, for an old wine-cask will retain the particular "bouquet" of the wine it had carried after performing several voyages as a water-butt. I drew out the stopper, and tasted the water. I had not thought of noticing its flavour before.
"O rare wine-taster!" said he of the Grove; "nowhere else indeed does it come from, and it has some years' age too." "Leave me alone for that," said Sancho; "never fear but I'll hit upon the place it came from somehow.
Any small misstep which she herself had made in life her daughter must be saved from making; all of her unsatisfied yearnings must be fulfilled for Gloria. She constituted herself cup-bearer, wine-taster and handmaiden for their daughter.
The usage of the old era, "the public dinner of the royal family," was also reintroduced; and the grand-master of ceremonies not only found it necessary to make preparations for this dinner weeks beforehand, but the king was also compelled to occupy himself with this matter, and to appoint for this great ceremony the necessary "officers of provisions" that is to say, the wine-taster, the cup-bearers, the grand doorkeepers, and the cook-in-chief.
"With his cutlass?" said I. "Then he was not always a Quaker?" "No," said our senior: "they don't learn these gymnastics at Fourth and Arch, though perchance the committee may have a word to say about it." "Quaker or not," said the wine-taster, "I wish any of you had legs as good or a heart as sound. Very good body, not too old, and none the worse for a Quaker fining."
She twisted round in her chair, her elbow on the arm and her chin in her hand and looked at him. "That's sudden, isn't it?" He smiled rather sadly. "When once you've made up your mind, it's best to act, instead of hanging on." "You're sure there's no hope in this country?" "I know I'm as useful as a professional wine-taster will soon be in the United States."
"O rare wine-taster!" said he of the Grove; "nowhere else indeed does it come from, and it has some years' age too." "Leave me alone for that," said Sancho; "never fear but I'll hit upon the place it came from somehow.
I guesh we'd better try 'em, like mamma does the milk on hot morningsh when the baddy milkman don't come time enough," and Toddie suited the action to the word by plucking from a cluster the handsomest grape in sight. "I fink," said he, smacking his lips with the suspicious air of a professional wine-taster; "I fink they is gettin' sour." "Let's see," said Budge.
But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the Middle Ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance, and was as ill-qualified to judge between two Latin styles as an habitual drunkard to set up for a wine-taster. Versification in a dead language is an exotic, a far-fetched, costly, sickly imitation of that which elsewhere may be found in healthful and spontaneous perfection.
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