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Thanks to the bitterness which the refuse infuses into the wine, and which, they say, lessens with age, a vintage will keep a century. This reason, given by the vine-grower in excuse for his obstinacy, is of sufficient importance to oenology to be made public here; Guillaume le Breton has also proclaimed it in some lines of his "Phillippide."
"Alas!" said the vicar, "humidity and drought are the two enemies of the vine-grower." "Nothing is truer," said the barber, "but I'll inspect the wound." Having said so he pushed one of his fingers into the wound. "Ah! Torturer!" exclaimed the patient. "Remember," said the vicar, "that our Lord forgave His torturers." "They were not barbarous," said the abbe.
There should be sympathy between the grower and his plants, such as is described by Blackmore in his Christowell; though in the following passage with consummate art he puts the words into the mouth of the sympathetic daughter of the amateur vine-grower, and gives the plant the credit of the first advance: "'For people to talk about "sensitive plants," she says, 'does seem such sad nonsense, when every plant that lives is sensitive.
"I am quite aware of the fact," I said somewhat frigidly. In nowise daunted he went on, "Coming back just now I saw the big Nicolo the eccellenza has doubtless seen him often? he is a vine-grower, and they say he is the largest man in Naples three months since he nearly killed his brother ebbene!
It is, assuredly, most painful to have to suffer the abuse of those for whom we have never done aught; but the outrages of those whom we have succoured, maintained, and favoured are insupportable injuries. The Equipage at Full Speed. The Poor Vine-grower. Sensibility of Madame de Maintenon. Her Popularity. One Has the Right to Crush a Man Who Will Not Get Out of the Way. What One Sees.
Since the affair of the vine-grower, killed on the road, she declared that I had insulted her before everybody, and that I had ordered her imperiously to return to my carriage, as though she had been a waiting-maid, or some other menial. As she did not come to me, I betook myself to her at a tolerably early hour, before the flood of visitors, and started her on the history of the lady in waiting.
But the place by this time has become so familiar to travellers in France and readers of French travel, that I will here confine myself to its glorifier, author of a song that has toured the world. The first biography of the French Tom Moore, published last year, gives no history of this much translated poem. Had, indeed, some worthy vine-grower poured out such a plaint in the poet's ears?
Mendicity is forbidden in the Jura as in the Department of the Doubs, and there is little real pinching poverty to be found among the rural population, though of course a laboriousness and economy unknown among our own. In the most part, the vine-grower and fabricator of Gruyere cheese, so called, is well-to-do and independent, and here indeed, the soil is the property of the people.
Madame de Maintenon wished to alight, and when she perceived the unfortunate vine-grower disfigured with his wounds, she clasped her hands and fell to weeping. The Marquise d'Hudicourt, who was always simplicity itself, followed her friend's example; there was nothing but groans and sorrowful exclamations. My coachman blamed the postilions, the postilions the man's obstinacy.
As to wine, it will be a long time before New South Wales has much to export; and the limited European population of China will not consume a sufficient quantity to be of importance to the Australian vine-grower. The Chinese cannot be counted upon as purchasers: they are not wine-drinkers, generally speaking; and the little they do consume, is manufactured to suit their own palates, in China.
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