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Updated: May 31, 2025
Arrived once more at Headquarters we were pressed to a petit verre of some very hot and raw liqueur, but nevertheless very warming, and very good. I felt I agreed with the Irish coachman who at his first taste declared "The shtuff was made in Hiven but the Divil himself invinted the glasses!" We had got terribly cold in the trenches.
But, returning resolutely to the petit verre, I am willing to concede that all after fourscore is the bain de pieds, the slopping over, so to speak, of the full measure of life.
"One I taught a lot of young boys and lads last winter for a wedding held here in the inn." Still the fresh notes filled the air: "Les amours sont partis Dans un bateau de verre; Le bateau a casse a casse Les amours sont parterre." "How the old women laughed and cried at once! It was years since they had heard it the old song.
The enthusiastic and sympathetic mistress of the house would immediately say: "Ah, the poor boy wants a drop of cognac! Get him some father!" The reluctant farmer procured a big bottle and a very diminutive glass known as the "petit verre," which held about a thimbleful. Paul would congratulate the good dame on her keen perception.
Si un ennemi verse du poison dans ces coupes elles deviennent comme des pommes d'argent. Dans un coffret incruste d'ambre j'ai des sandales incrustees de verre. J'ai des manteaux qui viennent du pays des Seres et des bracelets garnis d'escarboucles et de jade qui viennent de la ville d'Euphrate. . . Enfin, que veux-tu, Salome? Dis-moi ce que tu desires et je te le donnerai.
'Very well, Jack, help yourself, and he poured out a very liberal glass of the Dominion liquor, refusing to dilute it with soda. Sanderson took Scotch, and I helped myself to a petit verre of brandy. 'Now, Jack, I began, 'I may tell you plainly that if I wished to send you back to prison, I could not do so without incriminating myself.
At first the officer feebly protested that he did not enjoy that relationship, but, seeing the lady's anxiety, he at last admitted that he was Claude de Verré, and that he had hesitated to declare himself at first until he had assured himself that his reception would be cordial after his eighteen years of absence. He had no reason to doubt the maternal love and forgiveness.
"Let us see," said he, "if you will be able to keep your word; poets have as much need of an audience as Iván Kouzmitch has need of his 'petit verre' before dinner. And who is this Masha to whom you declare your tender sentiments and your ardent flame? Surely it must be Marya Ivánofna?" "That does not concern you," replied I, frowning; "I don't ask for your advice nor your suppositions."
M. de Piedsélon, a brother of Madame de Verré, alone denounced him as an impostor; but his words were unheeded, and the new comer continued to possess the confidence of the other relatives, and of the widow and her second son, with whom he continued to reside for some time.
They started on seeing me, and were a little confused, but soon laughed over their adventure; called Penelope to take her turn at the counter the little serf whispered to me as she passed, that I was 'a traitor, a barbarian, and insisted on treating me to my coffee and my petit verre, free, gratis, for nothing.
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