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Updated: May 20, 2025
She made raisin-wine, and those curious biscuits that tasted of Windsor soap. And this Mrs. Chubley, so curiously blended in her loving face. And last comes in old Major Jackson, smiling largely, squaring himself, and doing his courtesies in a firm but florid military style, and plainly pleased to find himself in good company and on the eve of a good dinner. And so our dinner-list is full.
But I'll give her good advice; an' she must be humble. It's wonderful o' Jane; for I'm sure she used to throw everything I did wrong at me, if it was the raisin-wine as turned out bad, or the pies too hot, or whativer it was."
When he had eaten, he said, "Give us to drink, O Ali;" and the latter set before him raisin-wine, boiled with fruits and spices, in vessels of gold and silver and crystal, served by boys like moons, clad in garments of Alexandrian cloth of gold and bearing on their breasts flagons of crystal, full of rose-water mingled with musk. Quoth El Mamoun, "Let us hear some pleasant songs."
Now let us to the acceptation of these good things," this, as a pallid, boyish-looking waiter just then entered the room with the luncheon, and in his bustling to and fro manifested unusual eagerness to make himself agreeable "I have made excellent friends with this young Ganymede, he has sworn never to palm off raisin-wine upon me for Chambertin!"
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