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It felt close and airless after the coldness of the night, and everything swam in a mist before his eyes; but he heard a voice not altogether unfamiliar say in authoritative accents: "Let him sit down, and give him a stoup of wine;" and presently his vision cleared, and he found himself sitting at one side of a rude table opposite the highway chieftain Tyrrel, whose face he well remembered.
The wooden crucifix with the pathetic figure in bronze on the wall over the desk, the holy water stoup at the door, carved figures of the Holy Family, a charming group, on the desk, exquisite etchings of the Christ and the Madonna after the masters, a prie-dieu in the inner room with a group of works of devotion: and Edith had declared him no Catholic. Here was the refutation.
"My friends," he said, "this is kind of you, and although I have been silent, I ask you to believe that deeply I appreciate your welcome escort. And now, enter with me, and we will drink a stoup of wine together, to the somber toast, 'God save our stricken city!" "No, no, Herr Goebel. To-night is sacred.
Haliburton sings, or we sit on the stoup and hear the crickets sing; but when there is a new Trollope or Thackeray, alas, there will never be another new Thackeray! all else has always been set aside till we have read that aloud. When I began the last sentence of the last Thackeray that ever was written, Ingham jumped out of his seat, and cried,
Margaret kissing him, said "Come Dymock brighten up, and thank your God for a happy home." Dymock sighed, Tamar took his heavy knapsack from him, and placed before him bread and butter, and cheese, and a stoup of excellent beer. Tamar had always slept with Mrs. Margaret, and the best room of the two above stairs had been prepared for Dymock, Mrs.
I'll go my own way, mark or no mark." He picked up his hat and hurried out. "And now I'll drink it to the dregs! "Why not? I've tasted the rarest wine in cups of purest crystal why not swallow the lees of a baser drink from a tavern stoup? 'Tis the last that drowns regret. Others have done so why not I?
And so, as years went on, in spite of the difference between their natures, there had grown up a sort of fellowship between the two; and of an evening sometimes, when his father's purse was so low that he could not indulge in his usual stoup of wine at the tavern, they would sit together while Sir Aubrey talked of his fights and adventures.
"It is long since I have tasted wine," thought he, "and it maybe long ere I drink it again. I have little relish for it now: it is too fiery to the palate. I recollect, when a child, how my father used to have me at the table, and give me a stoup of claret, which I could hardly lift to my lips, to drink to the health of the king."
Germoe, or Germoc. The pinnacles of the Perpendicular tower are specially notable, while the gable-cross and corbels of the porch are of a kind rare in this part of the country. The body of the church is Decorated, but its font must be far earlier; it is rather like a huge stoup, of remarkably rude formation, and may perhaps be Saxon in date. But the structure known as St.
'I think you had better get nine pints in a stoup. A little murmur of approval and anticipatory satisfaction ran round. 'I do not know whether that is right, he added, in a tone of hesitating interrogation. 'You speak the wisdom of all ages, answered the sergeant. 'Solomon never said anything better. "Take a little wine for the good of the stomach," says Saint Paul.
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