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Updated: June 25, 2025
I was obliged to acknowledge that, but for him, I should have had to remain on a dry-food diet. A bottle of Kakhetian wine helped us to forget the modest number of dishes of which there was one, all told. Then we lit our pipes, took our chairs, and sat down I by the window, and he by the stove, in which a fire had been lighted because the day was damp and cold. We remained silent.
In the restaurant, built upon a hill a few paces distant from my lodgings, lights are beginning to flash in the evening through the double row of poplars; noise and the jingling of glasses resound till late at night. In no place are such quantities of Kakhetian wine and mineral waters drunk as here. "And many are willing to mix the two, But that is a thing I never do."
It did not seem strange to him that his companion ignored both clues he offered. He knew the man too well for that. It was only that he waited for more before he spoke. They went to the little table outside the hotel pavement where several weeks ago they had drunk Kakhetian wine together and talked of deeper things. The German called for a bottle, mineral water, ice, and cigarettes.
"I have two pheasants; and the Kakhetian wine is excellent here... not what it is in Georgia, of course, but still of the best sort... We will have a talk... You will tell me about your life in Petersburg... Eh?"...
The sultry, enervating heat of the day had passed and a cool breeze came shorewards over the Black Sea. With a box of thin Russian cigarettes before him he lingered over the golden Kakhetian wine and watched the crowded street. Knowing enough of the language to bargain smartly for his room, his pillows, sheets, and samovar, he yet could scarcely compass conversation with the strangers about him.
You might have met the gods!" "In a strait-waistcoat," the doctor added with a snap. They laughed at one another across their coffee cups as once before they had laughed across their glasses of Kakhetian wine two eternally antagonistic types that will exist as long as life itself. But, contrary to his expectations, the German had little more to tell.
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