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Perhaps, if he is in good spirits after making a successful speech or fighting his Estimates through Committee, he will indulge himself with an imperial pint of champagne; but more often a whiskey-and-soda or a half-bottle of Zeltinger quenches his modest thirst. On Wednesday and Saturday our Minister, if he is not out of London, probably dines at a large dinner-party.
Then they sat down to table. From the colonel in the seat of honour, downwards, the officers were placed according to rank and length of service. He had been on stable duty from half-past four that morning, and had to pull himself together now not to fall asleep; till at last a bottle of Zeltinger was placed before him by the orderly, and then he became livelier.
But I made out a jar of whiskey, a shelf of Zeltinger, another of claret, and a short one at the top which presented a little battery of golden-leafed necks and corks. Raffles set his hand no lower. He examined the labels while I held folded hat and naked light. "Mumm, '84!" he whispered. "G. H. Mumm, and A.D. 1884!
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