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We should appreciate the wine quite as thoroughly as his customers would do. But how do you propose to bring your wine back, when the whole country south swarms with Soult's cavalry?" "Don Moldeno obtained a pass for us from Marmont; who, I suppose, is one of his customers." "We could not think of allowing wine to pass for the use of a French marshal," the man said.
Are your mules carrying nothing now?" "Nothing at all. The mules would have been requisitioned two days ago, as were most of the others in Salamanca; but Marmont's pass saved us." "Are you carrying the money to buy the wine with?" "No, Don Moldeno knew better than that. I have only a letter from him to the house of Simon Peron, at Xeres.
"Who are you, and whither are you going?" one, who appeared to be their leader, asked. "We are bound for Xeres," Garcia replied, rising to his feet. "We are commissioned by Senor Moldeno, the well-known wine merchant of Salamanca, to procure for him as much good Xeres wine as our mules will carry." "It is a pity that we did not meet you on the way back, instead of on your journey there.
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