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We dined deliciously, and drank as men do of iced wines in the dog-days looking down from Richmond Hill. One of the pink-bonnets crowned Fitz-Roy with a wreath of flowers; he looked less the intellect as handsome as Alcibiades. Intensely excited and flushed, he rose with a champagne glass in his hand to propose my health. The oratorical powers of his father had not descended on him.
All else, as I said, was a circular wall of grass, rock, and tumbled slag. This was Mirngish. And the day after the earthquake there was a fresh eruption in the crater. An eruption of horsemen and horse-women. An eruption of talk, laughter, pink-bonnets, knives and forks, and champagne.
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