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Deal with Vikher as you will, only remember to bring me some of the Water of Youth." Our young hero took the heat-giving hood, the cooling flagon, and the pin-cushion, and, after bidding farewell to old Yaga and her two pretty daughters, mounted his steed and rode off, following the pin-cushion, which rolled before him at a great rate.
"I bear an urgent despatch to you from my Lord the Archbishop of Treves," replied the messenger. "Then down on your knees and present it," cried the Count, beating the table with his flagon. "I am Envoy of his Lordship of Treves," said the messenger, sternly. "You told us that before," shouted the Count; "and now you stand in the hall of Bertrich. Kneel, therefore, to its master."
As for us, we're born with a flagon of heather ale within us, and we may be doing without the drug they must have, poor bodies, to make them sparkle." Argyll laughed. "Good-night, then," said he, "and a riddance to your vapours before the morning's morning." Mrs.
Sir Thomas Metcalfe remained closeted with the prisoner for a few minutes, and then coming forth, issued orders that all should get ready to start for Rough Lee without delay; whereupon each man emptied his flagon, pocketed the dice he had been cogging, pushed aside the shuffle-board, left the loggats on the clay floor of the barn, and, grasping his weapon halbert or caliver, as it might be prepared to attend his leader.
Let us get to thine inn and drink a flagon of Gloster ale to all tolerant souls, whether they call the Pope 'Father' or 'Devil." The sallow-faced man made no answer, but pushed on beside his burly companion.
"I confess I am curious to know how the thing happened, but the hand of the Almighty's in it anyway," he said; and so saying he lay back in his chair with a sigh of satisfaction that lost nothing of its zest by the influence of the rain that blattered now in drumming violence on the window-panes. John Splendid, at the table-end, laughed shortly between his sups at a flagon of wine.
Both realized that the first requisite was a lot of new Scenery. Even when they rapped sharply with a Spoon and ordered Garcon to hurry up the Little Birds with a Flagon of St. Regis Bubbles to come along as a drench, they realized that they did not look the Parts. Elam still combed his Hair in the style approved by the "Barbers' Guide and Manual" for 1887.
On the table, beside a bowl of late flowers were a great silver flagon and a number of goblets, some of chased silver and some of colored glass, strangely shaped and fragile as an eggshell. The late sun now shining in at the open window made the glass to glow like precious stones. My lord rang a little silver bell, and a door behind us was opened. "Wine, Giles!" cried my lord in a raised voice.
Children are all classics; a bottle would have seemed an intermediary too trivial that divine refreshment of whose meaning I had no guess; and I seized on the idea of that mystic shoe-horn with delight, even as, a little later, I should have written flagon, chalice, hanaper, beaker, or any word that might have appealed to me at the moment as least contaminate with mean associations.
Wine's good for old folks like Sophy and me, after walking a good way, or preaching a good while." The young girl stepped into the back-parlor, where she found the great pewter flagon in which the wine that was left after each communion-service was brought to the minister's house. With much toil she managed to tip it so as to get a couple of glasses filled.
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