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Master Dick paused in the act of lighting his pipe and dropped the match hurriedly as the flame scorched his fingers. "It was grown on a hill just outside the town the Mont-Bazillac. I once drank a bottle of it." "Lord! You too? . . . Do tell me what happened!" "Never," I responded firmly. "The Mont-Bazillac is extinct, swept out of existence by the phylloxera when you were a babe in arms.
"I must say those French officers were jolly decent about it: especially when I explained about the Mont-Bazillac.
Then another said: 'Ah, messieurs, if you would drink for the honour of England, justement you should match yourselves here in this town against the famous Mont-Bazillac. 'What is this Mont-Bazillac? we asked: and they told us well, pretty much what you told me just now adding, however, that the landlord kept a few precious bottles of it. They were quite fair in their warnings."
Next morning I wheedled two more bottles of the stuff out of old Sebillot which leaves him two for the wedding. I thought that you and I might have some fun with them. . . . Now tell me your experience." "That," said I, "must wait until you unlock my tongue; if indeed you have brought home the genuine Mont-Bazillac."
But" as the gate rang on its hasp and rang again "I've been thinkin' powerful what might ha' happened if his Lordship had turned up in due time to partake." Master Dick is a good boy; and when we met in the Christmas vacation no allusion was made to the Mont-Bazillac. On my part, I am absolved from my promised confession, and my lips shall remain locked.
I knew all the time that I was drunk; but that didn't seem to matter. The bagmen had told me " I nodded again. "That's one of the extraordinary things about the Mont-Bazillac," I corroborated. "I wouldn't quite say that," said Dick reflectively. "But you're partly right. All of a sudden the moon stopped whizzing, the river lay down in its bed, and my head became clear as a bell.
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