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Updated: May 17, 2025
The difference, I am told, mainly arises from the fact that the caravan tea, exposed to the air during its twelve months' journey in loose and clumsy and much-shaken paper and sheep-skin bundles, gets rid of the tannin and other gross substances, a process of purification which cannot be effected in the necessarily sealed and hermetically-closed boxes in which it reaches Europe by the sea-route; so that if sea-faring tea, like port-wine, easily recommends itself to the taste and nerves of a strong, hard-working man, a dainty, refined lady will give preference to a cup of Kiakhta tea, as she would to a glass of Château Yquem.
The sandwich-boy took the hats and bonnets at the street-door; there was a turn-up bedstead in the back parlour, on which Miss Billsmethi made tea and coffee for such of the gentlemen as chose to pay for it, and such of the ladies as the gentlemen treated; red port-wine negus and lemonade were handed round at eighteen-pence a head; and in pursuance of a previous engagement with the public-house at the corner of the street, an extra potboy was laid on for the occasion.
The doctor thought this a peculiar sort of treatment; but there was no lack of medicine in the house, and going to the dispensary, he composed a draught of soda, port-wine, and some simple drugs, and, filling a bottle, labelled it, "To be taken twice a day." Surja Mukhi took the physic to her husband, and requested him to drink it.
After all, Mungold held his ground, he did not go under. Spite of his manifest absurdity he had succeeded in propitiating the sister, in making himself tolerated by the brother; and the fact that his success was due to the ability to purchase port-wine and game was not in this case a mitigating circumstance.
Spooner were both very much given to hunting, as seemed to be necessarily the case with everybody admitted to that house. Mr. Spooner was a gentleman who might be on the wrong side of fifty, with a red nose, very vigorous, and submissive in regard to all things but port-wine. His wife was perhaps something more than half his age, a stout, hard-riding, handsome woman.
One of those places which had grown by degrees from the one central hut of logs, clay and thatch to the more pretentious proportions of the modern frame building of red pine weather-boarding, with shingled roofing to match, and the whole coloured with paint of a deep, port-wine hue, the points and angles being picked out with a dazzling white.
"No," cried Bartley, "they must not be lost; they shall not be lost. One man has come to himself. I gave him port-wine and brandy." Then he dragged the young man into the tent. There was stout Jim Davies propped up and held, but with a great tumbler of brandy and port in his hand. "Now, my man," said, or rather screamed, Bartley, "tell him where Hope is, and Mary that I Oh, God! oh, God!"
But he drank a prodigious quantity of wine; and I must say that my friend Mr. Hart's port-wine is so good that I myself took well, I should think, I took three glasses. Yes, three, certainly. HE I mean Mr. P. the old rogue, was insatiable: for we had to call for a second bottle in no time. When that was gone, my companion wanted another.
"Well, tell Annie to go to the sideboard and get that bottle of port-wine and pour out a glass for Miss Maria; and, Josephine, you had better bring her something to eat with it. You haven't had any supper, have you, child?" Maria shook her head. "I don't want any, thank you, papa," said she. "Is there any cold meat, Josephine, do you know?" Josephine said there was some cold roast beef.
'You promised me a second glass after I was rested. 'Drink it! returned Jeremiah, 'and choke yourself, I was going to say but go, I mean.'At the same time he produced the identical port-wine bottle, and filled a wine-glass. 'Her port-wine, I believe? said Double, tasting it as if he were in the Docks, with hours to spare. 'Her health. He took a sip. 'Your health! He took another sip.
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