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The great captain, noisy and talkative at all times, began to be boisterous almost before the cloth was drawn. Puffington was equally promiscuous with his after-dinner wines. He had all sorts of clarets, and 'curious old ports. The party did not seem to have any objection to spoil their digestions for the next day, and took whatever he produced with great alacrity.
"Well oh, it's awful! first of all there were six dozen of early-bottled, 1875 Chateau Lafitte that was the bitterest but he had to see the rest go, too Chateau Margeaux of '80 some terribly ancient port and Madeira the dryest kind of sherry a lot of fine, full clarets of '77 and '78 oh, you can't know how agonising it was to him I've heard them so often I know them all myself."
Thence, pausing to refresh himself by the way at a sign "Agency for Reims Champagne and Moselle Wines Bordeaux Clarets and Sauternes," over to Broadway to interview the most august persons of all, dealers in fertiliser, "fish scrap." These mighty gentlemen live, when at business, in palatial suites of offices constructed of marble and fine woods and laid with rich rugs.
"It's not always safe to depend on the commemorative tendencies of those who come after us. There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the mediaeval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.
I was introduced to a Music Hall chairman once, and when I said to him, "What is your drink?" he took up the "list of beverages" that lay before him, and, opening it, waved his hand lightly across its entire contents, from clarets, past champagnes and spirits, down to liqueurs. "That's my drink, my boy," said he. There was nothing narrow-minded or exclusive about his tastes.
"Parade he by no chance ever misses," says our Demon friend. "At the stroke of twelve," continues Preuss, "dinner is served. Dinner threefold; that is, a second table and a third. "The dinner-service was of beautiful porcelain; not silver, still less gold, except on the grandest occasions. King himself drinks Bergerac, or other clarets, with water.
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