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We were so perfectly up to the mark, that our major, a Connemara man, said, as we left the mess-room, "a liqueure glass would spoil us." In this acme of our intellectual wealth, we started about eleven o'clock upon every species of conveyance that chance could press into the service.

Monsieur se moque de moi!" And the Dame de Comptoir, intrenched behind her fruits and liqueure bottles, shot a Parthian glance from under her black eye-lashes, and made believe to blush. "Yes, Madame, to you.

The fair, or rather that part of the fair where the dancers and diners most did congregate, was all ablaze with lights, and noisy with brass bands as we came out. Ma tante, who was somewhat tired, and had been dozing for the last half hour over her coffee and liqueure, was impatient to get back to Paris.

He hung up ma cousine's bonnet; fetched a footstool for ma tante; criticised the sauces; presided over the wine; cut jokes with the waiter; and pretended to have ordered every dish beforehand. By-and-by came Monsieur Choucru's famous cheese soufflé; and then, with a dish of fruit, four cups of coffee, and four glasses of liqueure, the banquet came to an end.

We were so perfectly up to the mark, that our major, a Connemara man, said, as we left the mess-room, "a liqueure glass would spoil us." In this acme of our intellectual wealth, we started about eleven o'clock upon every species of conveyance that chance could press into the service.

You shall be immortalized, my dear fellow positively immortalized!" "Bien obligé, M'sieur bien obligé. Will you not let my wife offer you a glass of liqueure?" "Liqueure, mon cher!" exclaimed Müller, with an outburst of frank cordiality "hang liqueure! "Monsieur shall be heartily welcome to the best dinner the Toison d'Or can send up; and his friend also," said Madame, with her sweetest smile.