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He did not care for deep drinking in the least, but the number of magnums he had assisted in flooring, when on a regimen of "three glasses of sherry," would have made a double row of nails round the coffin of a larger man. Nature, however, being a Dame, won't stand being slighted, or having her admonitions disregarded, and the way she asserted herself on the morrow was retributive in the extreme.
"Same old place," he remarked, "and by Jove, there's the young lady from Austria." The young lady from Austria paid her bill and departed somewhat hastily. The Vicomte smiled. "I think we shall frighten a few of them away to-night!" he remarked. "The wine! Good! We shall need magnums to drown our regrets, if indeed our English friends desert us to-morrow.
'As long as you're contented with not dating in double numbers, retorted the doctor, absolutely scattering the precious minutes to the winds, for he hated a provocation. 'There's a golden mean, is there! 'There is; there's a way between magnums of good wine and gout, and it's generally discovered too late.
The old New Year's eve festivities at the Gadski-Tauschers' resembled the storied banquets of the middle ages.... Boars' heads, meat pies, salade macédoine, coeur de palmier, hollandaise were washed down with magnums and quarts of Irroy brut, 1900, Pol Roger, Chambertin, graceful Bohemian crystal goblets of Liebfraumilch and Johannisberger Schloss-Auslese.
"Well," said he, "what is it to be?" "Champagne champagne in magnums!" cried Charlie Ellerton, with a ringing laugh.
If any really nice people happen to stop in their motor for any reason at the house in the morning, say about eleven o'clock, they are offered magnums of champagne, as if out of gratitude for their coming. They hardly ever seem to do more than sip, so perhaps the black and yellow insects get the rest.
"How you two smarts can tell a domino from a door-knocker after cracking a dozen magnums gets me guessing." He took up the scented bag and gravely handed it to the old woman. "You have mislaid your bag, madam," he said. "But, fortunately, I noticed it as I came in." He turned the glance of his fierce eyes upon the man who had met him on the landing, and who had followed him into the room.
All that I am certain of is that, at supper-time, I found Mulvaney with Private Ortheris, two-thirds of a ham, a loaf of bread, half a pate-de-foie-gras, and two magnums of champagne, sitting on the roof of my carriage. As I came up I heard him saying
There was plenty to eat beer, soda, whisky, and two magnums of champagne, Merrihew's contribution to the feast. Hillard listened with increasing amusement to the shop-talk. It was after one when they returned to the sitting-room, where the piano stood. The wine was now opened and toasts were drunk. O'Mally told inimitable stories.
Already spits were turning before great fires; a rump of beef, legs of pork, and pease-puddings boiling in one copper; turkeys and fowls in another; joints and pies baking in the great brick ovens; barrels of beer on tap, and magnums of champagne and port marching steadily up from the cellars, and forming in line and square upon sideboards and tables.
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