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Updated: May 17, 2025
You should just see his moustache! Why, he calls good claret 'trash'! 'Bring me some of the usual trash, is his way of ordering it. And Lieutenant Kuvshinnikov, too! He is as delightful as the other man. In fact, I may say that every one of the lot is a rake. I spent my whole time with them, and you can imagine that Ponomarev, the wine merchant, did a fine trade indeed!
Ponomarev said to me on parting: 'This piece is just the thing for you. Even if you were to search the whole market, you would never find a better one. But of course he is a terrible rogue. I said to him outright: 'You and the Collector of Taxes are the two greatest skinflints in the town. But he only stroked his beard and smiled.
Compared with it, provincial stuff is kvass . Try to imagine not merely Clicquot, but a sort of blend of Clicquot and Matradura Clicquot of double strength. Also Ponomarev produced a bottle of French stuff which he calls 'Bonbon. Had it a bouquet, ask you? Why, it had the bouquet of a rose garden, of anything else you like. What times we had, to be sure!
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