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My earliest recollections of him owe their vividness to three accidents in the logical sense of the term: his silky milk-white locks, his Spanish servant who wore earrings and whom, by the way, I used to confound with Courvoisier, often there at the same time with his master Lord William Russell, for the murder of whom he was hanged, as all the world knows and his fox terrier Nettle, which, as a special favour, I was allowed to feed with Abernethy biscuits.
Two months later, on the 16th of May, the Chamber of Deputies was dissolved; the two most moderate members of the Cabinet, the Chancellor and the Minister of Finance, M. Courvoisier and M. de Chabrol, left the Council; they had refused their concurrence to the extreme measures already debated there, in case the elections should falsify the expectations of power.
Claudine was tactfully silent. He paid and climbed the stairs to George's table. "The lady's gone. I've taken the high road," he said gloomily. "My God, Olive Oil, she was . . ." George's eyes expanded. "I mean, bazumas!" "Yes," Oliver said. "Bazumas." "That dress! That color!" "How about a little Courvoisier, George?" An hour later, he lurched home and put on La Traviata.
Having returned to the private life from which he never again emerged, M. Courvoisier wrote to me on the 29th of September 1831, from his retirement at Baume-les-Dames: "Before resigning the Seals, I happened to be in conversation with M. Pozzo di Borgo on the state of the country, and the perils with which the throne had surrounded itself.
In the last, there is little calculation beyond the absorbing greed of the money to be got. Courvoisier, for example, might have robbed his master with greater safety, and with fewer chances of detection, if he had not murdered him. But, his calculations going to the gain and not to the loss, he had no balance for the consequences of what he did.
Francois! a glass of champagne for Miss Smith;" Courvoisier would have served you just as any other footman would; you would never have known that there was anything extraordinary in these individuals, but would have thought of them only in their respective public characters of Grocer and Footman.
These were all charged with Pinkerton's Thirteen Star, although from across the room it would have required an expert to distinguish them from the same number of bottles of Courvoisier. I used to twit my friend with this resemblance, and propose a new edition of the pamphlet, with the title thus improved, "Why Drink French Brandy, When We give You the same Labels?"
If we should give any additional hints to that just whispered, it would be, that more care should be taken in looking over the proofs. Calvinism should not be spelt Calvanism, Thackeray Thackaray, nor Courvoisier Corvosier, neither should traveller be spelt traveler, nor theatre theater.
He tipped well and felt that everybody was winning in the exchange so what if he were spending all his money. Candlelight gleamed from glasses and warmed the walls. The room was formal and cozy at the same time. He ate slowly, feeling calm and unburdened. He ordered espresso and Death By Chocolate, then lingered over Courvoisier. Verdi was aggrieved when Oliver finally got home.
"Take heart, my young friend," Jocelyn Thew advised him, "and do not refuse the Courvoisier brandy which our saintly friend with the chain is proffering. If it is not indeed a relic of the Napoleonic era, it is at least drinkable. And listen this may help you to drink it with zest I am not going to ask you to drop any documents over the German lines."
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