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Updated: May 1, 2025
One day I entered a shop kept by a man named Stibbs, and asked if I could procure any volumes of sixteenth-century print. "Yes," said Mr. Stibbs, "we have a cellarful of them, and we sell them by the ton or by the cord."
"It's a ghoulish thing to ask for in the middle of the day, isn't it, Philippa, but can I have some champagne?" "You can have the whole cellarful," Philippa assured him joyously. "Be sure you bring the best, Mills." "The Perrier Jonet 1904, your ladyship," was the murmured reply. Mills' disappearance was very brief, and in a very few moments they found themselves seated once more at the table.
Thereupon Dummling asked to have her for his wife; but the king did not like the son-in-law, and made all manner of excuses and said he must first produce a man who could drink a cellarful of wine.
"Take it across to Gourlay," whispered Wilson to the two men who were carrying the enormous tome. They took it over to the grain merchant, and one of them handed him an inkhorn. He dashed it to the ground. The meeting hissed like a cellarful of snakes. But Gourlay turned and glowered at them, and somehow the hisses died away.
In the light of the conflagration it showed pitch black, and by and by I knew it for wine flowing down from a whole cellarful of casks which a score of madmen were broaching as they dragged them forth from a house on the upper side of the square. A child he could not have been more than four years old ran screaming by me.
Take a man of naturally quixotic temperament, a man of chivalrous instincts and a feeling for romance, and cut him off for five years from the exercise of those qualities, and you get an accumulated store of foolishness only comparable to an escape of gas in a sealed room or a cellarful of dynamite. A flicker of a match, and there is an explosion.
Then I range my bottles in the cellar port, burgundy, hock, champagne, imperial tokay; subtle and inspiring beverages, not grown in common vineyards, and demanding to be labelled. That is my second reading. Then I sit down to my wine, and that is my third; and in any book of Meredith's I have a cellarful for a lifetime.
The first assists his mate, never forsakes her. The second seeks a divorce at an early stage and leaves the nuptial roof before the children's rations are massed and kneaded into shape. Nevertheless, on both sides, there is the same big outlay on a cellarful of egg-shaped pills, whose neat rows call for long and watchful supervision.
Then Dullhead claimed her as his bride, but the King, who did not much fancy him as a son-in-law, made all sorts of objections, and told him he must first find a man who could drink up a whole cellarful of wine.
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