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'Only half baptised as yet, sir. 'I'm godfather to both of 'em. Remember that, if you please, ma'am. You had better have some mulled wine. 'I couldn't touch a drop indeed, sir. 'You must, said the single gentleman. 'I see you want it. I ought to have thought of it before.
He quickly assisted me to change my wet clothes for a warm dressing-gown, and then brought a glass of mulled port wine, but performed these duties with such an air of unbroken gravity that I was inwardly amused while I admired the fellow's reticence. When I was about to retire for the night, I tossed him a napoleon.
There, with a cup of gin or mulled wine at his elbow and the bowl of a Holland clay propped in a horny fist, he might listen tranquilly to the sobbing of the tempest in the gaping chimney.
Never had Bixby read Bangs any poem he had made, nor did ever Bangs invite Bixby to meet his convivial friends of an evening to play whist or to partake of his mulled ale. In fact, Mr. Bixby had been often and with great enthusiasm voted an unsocial fellow by the cronies of Mr.
Professor Grime having lost several teeth, is unable, I observe, to eat his crusts without previously soaking them in his bottled porter. How interesting are these peculiarities! 'Half-past eleven. 'Professors Woodensconce and Grime, with a degree of good humour that delights us all, have just arranged to toss for a bottle of mulled port.
"Mulled wine" translates M.H.G. "lutertranc", a claret mulled with herbs and spice and left to stand until clear. "Mark". See Adventure V, note 5. ADVENTURE IX. How Siegfried Was Sent To Worms. When they had thus fared on their way full nine days, Hagen of Troneg spake: "Now mark ye what I say. We wait too long with the tidings for Worms upon the Rhine.
"'Fairly and softly, good sir! as Hunsdrich the porter said when I would have drunk the mulled wine, while he was on the cold staircase " "Essper! do you mean to enrage me?" "'By St. Hubert! as that worthy gentleman the Grand Marshal was in the habit of swearing, I " "This is too much; what are the idle sayings of these people to me?"
He runs sideways at the bar, and sort of lies down on his back on it as he goes over. You'd think he'd muff it every time, but just as he looks like done for, he kicks up his foot and clears. Barnworth takes it straight skips up to the bar and goes over like a daisy, without seeming to try. "At 5 foot 1, Wake mulled twice, and we thought he was out of it.
If you will ring for John Grueby to carry the portmanteau into my room, and will wait here while I undress, we will dispose of business as usual, if you're not too tired. 'Too tired, my lord! But this is his consideration! Christian from head to foot. With which soliloquy, the secretary tilted the jug, and looked very hard into the mulled wine, to see how much remained.
Here is a glass of mulled wine ready to our hand at the moment; and I say, 'Uncle Scrooge!" "Well! Uncle Scrooge!" they cried. "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the old man, whatever he is!" said Scrooge's nephew. "He wouldn't take it from me, but may he have it, nevertheless. Uncle Scrooge!"
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