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Newton and Nicholas both departed on their respective missions. Amber made her appearance. "Papa," said Amber, "do you want me?" "Yes, my dear," said Mr Forster, handing her the keys, "go down to the cellaret and bring up some wine. I do not wish the servants to come in just now." Amber reappeared with a small tray. She first handed it to the marquis, who roused at her voice.
The money, the money he was the most attentive husband in England when he thought of the money! At the time when Lord Harry's carriage stopped at his house-door, he was in the dining-room, taking a bottle of brandy from the cellaret in the sideboard. Looking instantly out of the window, he discovered who the visitor was, and decided on consulting his instructions in the pocket-diary.
The old-fashioned cellaret sideboard, against the wall at the end, supported a large bright-burning brass lamp, with raised foxes round the rim, whose effulgent rays shed a brilliant halo over eight black hats and two white ones, whereof the four middle ones were decorated with evergreens and foxes' brushes. The dinner table was crowded, not covered.
"I want you to stay home and go driving with me. I want you to call on some people and look at a new cellaret I'd like to buy. It is expensive, but no one else would have one anywhere near as charming. I need you this afternoon you're so calm and strong, and my head aches. I'm always tired." "Yet you never work," he said, almost unconsciously.
The word recalled him to himself, and he got up and raised the lid of the cellaret, lovingly running his hand over the rows of bottles. "A pig would be better, I think," said the boy, doubtfully, "or a cow, if you could afford it. She is a poor woman, you know." "Afford it!" chuckled the Major. "Why, I'll sell your grandmother's silver, but I'll afford it, sir."
"`But how came you to contract such a habit? said I. And then she told me that she began by finishing what was left in the glasses of my friends and myself after dinner; then, as I never locked up the cellaret the thirst becoming stronger and stronger she helped herself from the bottles, till at last she had become a confirmed drunkard.
'Hm! said the Doctor, not mollified. 'Cold is always the excuse. But another time don't teach your brother to make this place like a fast man's rooms. Ethel was amazed at Tom's bearing this so well. With the slightest possible wrinkle of the skin of his forehead, he took up the decanter and carried it off to the cellaret. 'How that boy sleeps! said his father, looking at him.
Under the sideboard stands a cellaret that looks as if it held half a bottle of currant wine, and a shivering plate-warmer that never could get any comfort out of the wretched old cramped grate yonder.
To be conscious that the end of the dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end. Her grandfather had returned, and was busily engaged in pouring some gallons of newly arrived rum into the square bottles of his square cellaret.
Presently she flung open a wing of the elaborate cellaret that stood near and disclosed a gleaming array of cut-glass decanters. Her fingers hovered over them. "Cognac?" "Think I'll take my tea straight just as you make it." "Most Western men don't care for afternoon tea. You should hear my father on the subject." "I can imagine him." He smiled.
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