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There is not such champagne in any other house in Barsetshire; and then the claret " And Mr Athill pressed his lips together, and gently shook his head, meaning to signify by the motion that the claret of Gatherum Castle was sufficient atonement for any penance which a man might have to go through in his mode of obtaining it.
Mr Athill consequently dropped the word he was speaking, and uttered a prayer if it was a prayer that they might all have grateful hearts for that which God was about to give them. If it was a prayer! As far as my own experience goes, such utterances are seldom prayers, seldom can be prayers. And if not prayers, what then?
"Well," said Frank to his neighbour, "it may be very well once in a way; but I think that on the whole Dr Thorne is right." "My dear Mr Gresham, see the world on all sides," said Mr Athill, who had also been somewhat intent on the gratification of his own appetite, though with an energy less evident than that of the gentleman opposite.
The food and wine, the attendance also, and the view of the vast repository of plate he vouchsafed willingly to his county neighbours; but it was beyond his good nature to talk to them. To judge by the present appearance of most of them, they were quite as well satisfied to be left alone. Frank was altogether a stranger there, but Mr Athill knew every one at the table.
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