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Updated: June 9, 2025
"My Lord Duke!" again commenced Grafenberg, and again he stopped. "Go on!" shouted all. "My Lord Duke! Rudesheimer is treading on my toes!" Here little Geisenheim gave a loud laugh of derision, in which all joined except surly Markbrunnen, whose lips protruded an extra inch beyond their usual length when he found that all were laughing at his friend. The Grand Duke at last procured silence.
But his quick companion, the Margrave of Rudesheimer, soon thrust a bottle of Grafenberg into the Landgrave's hand, and with some trouble and bustle the Landgrave extracted the cork; and then helping himself sat down, forgetting either to salute, or to return the salutations of those present. "Again, Sir Stranger, briefly, but heartily, welcome!
Winstock, as the steamer stopped her wheels. "A famous wine is also made here. It is said that Charlemagne, seeing from his castle windows, near Mayence, how early the snow disappeared from the heights below us, ordered vines from France to be set out here; and from these vines is produced the noted Rüdesheimer wine.
"The man who refuses to apologize, and that abjectly, must take down his sword from the peg and settle with me!" A shout of apology was the response. "We grovel at your feet, High Mightiness!" cried the man who had called him poltroon. "I have taken the liberty of ordering a fish and meat supper, with a double quantity of Rudesheimer wine.
"Waiter, a bottle of Rudesheimer!" bellowed the judge; "and if any gentleman or gentlemen would like to join me, they may," he added, in a more subdued tone. No one answered, and the bottle was put down.
The long whisker of the Archduke of Hockheimer curled with renewed rage; audible, though suppressed, was the growl of the hairy Elector of Steinberg; fearful the corporeal involutions of the tall Baron of Asmanshausen; and savagely sounded the wild laugh of the bright-eyed Margrave of Rudesheimer. "Silence, my Lords!" said the Grand Duke.
However, he loosened his wire and held the bottle at an angle with the chandelier; but the cork flew quite wild, and struck with great force the mighty nose of Johannisberger. "A forfeit!" cried all. "Treason, and a forfeit!" cried the Margrave of Rudesheimer. "A forfeit is sufficient punishment," said the President; who, however, still felt the smarting effect of the assault on his proboscis.
"Fiddles sipped his Rudesheimer with the air of a connoisseur, blinking at the ceiling now and then after the manner of expert wine tasters, and complimenting the old lady meanwhile on the quality of the vintage.
'You appear to me to want more, said the lieutenant audibly to himself; and he repeated words to the same effect to his companion, in bad German. 'Eh? You would promote him to another epaulette? laughed Captain Weisspriess. 'Come off. Orders are direct against it. And we're in Milan not like being in Verona! And my good fellow! remember your bet; the dozen of iced Rudesheimer.
The curious drinking cups of painted glass were immediately withdrawn from the file, the bottle was sent round, the Elector's health was pledged, and the Grand Duke of Johannisberger again spoke: "Again, Sir Stranger, briefly, but heartily, welcome! Welcome from us, and welcome from all; and first from us, and now from the Margrave of Rudesheimer!"
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