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Why, he is that miserable that he wonders why he don't hang himself, and save the Government all the trouble; and if a few nobblers make him feel as if he might have some good chances yet, and that it doesn't so much matter after all, why shouldn't he drink? He does drink, of course; every miserable man, and a good many women as have something to fear or repent of, drink.
'Body, or what captious folk would call 'heaviness, is the first condition of good wine to the colonial taste. The lower middle and lower classes also like it sweet; but of course a man who drinks any quantity of wine prefers it dry. Besides the champagne drunk for show, there is in spite of a 20s. a dozen duty a large quantity consumed in the way of nobblers, and at dinner by wealthy men.
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