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Updated: June 22, 2025
Now the children's voices blend with the song of the wood birds, and they have a garden there of dandelions, daisies, and flowers. The roof and walls are now covered with stone crop and moss, and traveller's joy, which gives it a variety of color. The currant bushes are pruned, and the long rose brandies are trimmed, and present a blooming appearance.
To the former country the exportation of manufactured silks of all sorts is said to have been to the value of 600,000l.; of linen, sail-cloth, and canvass, about 700,000l.; in beaver hats, watches, clocks, and glass, about 220,000l.; in paper, about 90,000l.; in iron ware, the manufacture of Auvergne, chiefly, about 40,000l.; in shalloons, tammies, &c. from Picardy and Champagne, about 150,000l.; in wines, about 200,000l.; and brandies, about 80,000l.
One bottle of champagne, if you please, between two of us, and the liqueur brandies were served with the soup. Call this a Christian country!" "Then if you're sober, and for once you seem to be," Phipps said, "just listen to me. Listen hard, mind, and don't interrupt. Have you ever wondered why I put you on the Board of the B.& I.?" "My title, I suppose and social position." "Rot!"
They sit themselves in a dark corner, hidden from the sun's rays, and in one position remain for hours, inhaling the poisonous air with the room full of carbonic acid gas, which is as poisonous to man as arsenic is to rats; and in addition to this, will fill their lungs with tobacco smoke, and to steady their nerves require a stimulation of perhaps eight or ten brandies a day.
It was talked about everywhere in fashionable drawing-rooms at five o'clock tea, over thin bread and butter and souchong; at clubs, over brandies and sodas and cigarettes; by working men over their mid-day pint, and by their wives in the congenial atmosphere of the back yard over the wash-tub.
I tasted here, for the first time, aguardiénte, or brandy distilled from the Californian grape. Its flavour is not unpleasant, and age, I do not doubt, would render it equal to the brandies of France. Large quantities of wine and aguardiénte are made from the extensive vineyards farther south. Dr. M. informed me that his lands had produced a hundredfold of wheat without irrigation.
Then the brandies the distiller tells you proudly that Spanish brandy is made from wine, and contemptuously that French brandy is not old brandies for which a toper would sell his soul; new brandies like fusel-oil; brandies mellow and mild and rich. It is a drunkard's paradise. And why should not the drinker have his paradise?
"'Twas by accident we discovered this king of drinks, and 'twill be by good luck if we strike it again. For ten months we've been trying. Small lots at a time, we've mixed barrels of all the harmful ingredients known to the profession of drinking. Ye could have stocked ten bars with the whiskies, brandies, cordials, bitters, gins and wines me and Tim have wasted.
Here, boy, light the candles and bring two sodas and brandies." "Well, Bathurst," he went on, when they had made themselves comfortable in two lounging chairs, "what do you thing of Miss Hannay?" "I was prepared to admire her, Doctor, from what you said; it is not very often that you overpraise things; but she is a charming girl, very pretty and bright, frank and natural."
But he actually smiled with pleasure as he heard my father run over some part of the contents, muttering his critical remarks as he went on. " Brandies Barils and barricants, also tonneaux. You should have noted that they are all, nevertheless to be entered as titlings. How many inches long is a titling?" Owen, seeing me at fault, hazarded a whisper, of which I fortunately caught the import.
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