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This done, he yawned aloud, flung himself into the nearest easy-chair, and rang the bell. "More coals, Henri," he said, imperiously; "and stop! a bottle of Seltzer-water." The servant hesitated. "I don't think, Monsieur le Vicomte," he said, "that Madame has any Seltzer-water in the house; but ..."
"If ze petit pretendu was here, what would you have done wiz him, Jac? You would croquer im, like zis ecrevisse, hein? You would mache his bones, hein?" Jack, who had forgotten to put the seltzer-water into his champagne, writhed at the idea of having Barnes Newcome before him, and swore, could he but see Barnes, he would take the little villain's life.
As he did this, our eyes met in the looking-glass; whereupon he turned hastily back to the window, and stood there whistling till it occurred to him to ring the bell again. "Monsieur rang?" said the footman, once more making his appearance at the door. "Mort de ma vie! yes. The Seltzer-water." "I have sent for it, Monsieur le Vicomte." "And it is not yet come?" "Not yet, Monsieur le Vicomte."
Charles looked up from his paper and nodded slightly; the stranger raised his eyebrows a little and looked at Alphonse. He dropped his cue on the floor. "Excuse me, gentlemen, I'm not in the mood for billiards to-day," said he, "permit me to leave off. Waiter, bring me a bottle of seltzer-water and a spoon I must take my dose of Vichy salts."
The library was a very handsomely furnished library, but it looked as if the noble master of Normanstow Towers did more drinking than reading in its luxurious interior, as three trays with at least a dozen empty glasses stood on the broad mahogany table, while a decanter of whiskey, a siphon of seltzer-water, and five quart bottles of wine decorated a smaller table at one side.
During the time he was gone when necessarily the action of the piece was brought to a standstill Lemaitre entertained his audience with a dissertation on seltzer-water and the consciencelessness of managers.
Meanwhile Rameau will explain to you, as he has done to me, that the journal in question is designed for circulation among readers of haute classe it is to be pleasant and airy, full of bons mots and anecdote; witty, but not ill-natured. Politics to be Liberal, of course, but of elegant admixture, champagne and seltzer-water.
Monsieur Maurice just tasted the raspberries and sent his plate away. "How heavy the air of the room is!" he said. "Give me some Seltzer-water, and open that farthest window." Hartmann reversed the order. He opened the window first; and as he did so, I saw that his hand shook upon the hasp, and that his face was deadly pale.
By and by, after the lapse of nearly three quarters of an hour, my father was recalled, and an officer in waiting was despatched to Monsieur Maurice's rooms to fetch what was left of the bottle of Seltzer-water, which Monsieur Maurice had himself locked up in the sideboard the night before.
Bovary invited him to have a drink, and he thoroughly understood the uncorking of the stone bottles. "You must," he said, throwing a satisfied glance all round him, even to the very extremity of the landscape, "hold the bottle perpendicularly on the table, and after the strings are cut, press up the cork with little thrusts, gently, gently, as indeed they do seltzer-water at restaurants."
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