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I found the old gentleman looking just as I had left him three years before, complaining a little of gout in the left foot praising his old specific, port-wine abusing his servants for robbing him and drinking the Duke of Wellington's health every night after supper; which meal I had much pleasure in surprising him at on my arrival not having eaten since my departure from London.
It is strange that the most ethereal effervescence of rich wine can produce nothing better. The first series of vaults which we entered were filled with port-wine, and occupied a space variously estimated at from eleven to sixteen acres, which I suppose would hold more port-wine than ever was made.
If it came to an argument, the farmer sidled into a secure corner of prophecy, and bade his wife to see what would come of having dainty children. He could not deny that bread and beef made blood, and were cheaper than the port-wine which doctors were in the habit of ordering for this and that delicate person in the neighbourhood; so he was compelled to have recourse to secret discontent.
How they hate us, these foreigners, in Belgium as much as in France! What lies they tell of us; how gladly they would see us humiliated! Honest folks at home over their port-wine say, "Ay, ay, and very good reason they have too. National vanity, sir, wounded we have beaten them so often." My dear sir, there is not a greater error in the world than this.
Cut it into meat joints; cut half a pound of unsmoked bacon into slices, and fry in a saucepan; then lay in the hare, and sauté for fifteen minutes. Pour off the fat. Add half a pint of port-wine, a bouquet garni, and a dozen mushrooms, and a little pepper and salt; let this simmer gently one hour; then add a pint of brown sauce and twenty button onions which have been blanched.
Hackit's first questions, and Milly endeavoured to make it appear that no woman was ever so much in danger of being over-fed and led into self-indulgent habits as herself. But Mrs. Hackit gathered one fact from her replies, namely, that Mr. Brand had ordered port-wine.
He drinks claret, and can't stand port-wine any longer; and the old fellows of his college admire him, and pet him, and get all their knowledge of the world and the aristocracy from him. I admire those kind old dons when they appear affable and jaunty, men of the world, members of the "Camford and Oxbridge Club," upon the London pavement.
"If he had even sighed, I might have felt more kindness toward him; but he only gave something between a cough and a grunt, and I clearly heard him say, 'Gout to-morrow morning! what the devil did I drink port-wine for! He struck the ground with his stick and came onward, thinking far more of his feet than heart.
The hospital-student who attended merely remarked that the babe was small and sickly, and advised the mother to drink sound port-wine while nursing him, which she could not afford. Nevertheless, the boy struggled somehow through five years of life, and was put into smallclothes.
The dinner was at last over, and the port-wine was carried out into the arbour; not, on this occasion, by Polly, but by the maid. Polly and Mrs. Neefit went off together, while Ralph crowded into the little summer-house with Moggs and Neefit. In this way half an hour was passed, a half hour of terrible punishment. But there was worse coming. "Mr.
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