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Menehould, or a supreme de cochon en torticolis a la Piffarde; such as Champollion, the chef of the "Traveller's," only knows how to dress; or the bouquet of a flask of Medoc, of Carbonell's best quality; or a goutte of Marasquin, from the cellars of Briggs and Hobson.
Well, sir, the Artillery gave a ball, and Quintin, of the King's 14th, said to me, 'Sedley, said he, 'I bet you thirteen to ten that Sophy Cutler hooks either you or Mulligatawney before the rains. 'Done, says I; and egad, sir this claret's very good. Adamson's or Carbonell's?"
Carbonell's wine was placed upon the table: it was a claret made expressly for the London market, well-dashed with Hermitage, and infinitely more to the taste of the Englishman than the delicately-flavoured wine they had been drinking.
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