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Unless it were in the saddle, you could scarcely see him to better advantage than at this ceremony of brandy-mixing for a ceremony it was; no pushing of a decanter, but a slow solemn ladling by the host himself from an ample bowl. Moreover, the Penalune brandy was famous. 'It has lain, said he 'let me see thirty-five years in cellar, to my own knowledge.
I will come with pleasure, said Doctor Unonius, thrusting Homer back in his shelf. 'Wunnerful brandy, Sir John! said old Squire Morshead. He said this regularly as he dined at Penalune when, after dinner and wine and songs, the hour came for the 'brandy-mixing' before the guests dispersed. Sir John was a widower and confined his hospitality to men.
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