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"Now it's our turn," cried Hermione. "Questo vino è bello e fino, È portato da Castello a mare, Faccio brindisi al Signor Gaspare." The boys burst into a hearty laugh, and Gaspare's eyes gleamed with pleasure while Hermione and Maurice drank. Then Sebastiano drew from the inner pocket of his old jacket a little flute, smiling with an air of intense and comic slyness which contorted his face.
He was once more the irrepressible, cheery, street arab among kings, who had swindled the British public with his Vino Regalis, who defied all conventional decencies in his relations with Madame Ypsilante, who had failed to pay his bills in London and tried to outwit the Emperor over the sale of Salissa. "Gorman," he said, "my friend Gorman. Once more we are alive. Many things happen.
If Horace had told my praetor that "Abstinuit Venere et vino, sudavit et alsit," "What, to write a few lines!" would his praetorship have cried out. "Why, I can live well and enjoy life; and I flatter myself no one in Rome does more business." Dunsford. All of it only goes to show how little we know of each other, and how tolerant we ought to be of others' efforts. Milverton.
On the summits, at last, they speak like northerners, and I was easily understood, for they said not 'vino' but 'vin'; not 'duo' but 'du', and so forth. They are the Gauls of the hills. I told them so, and they were very pleased.
'Bozhe, Bozhe, bez vino ne se mozhe! . . . Corruption in all branches of the administration Is the essence of Serbian rule." This picture, corroborating as it does the Carnegie Report of the "government within a government," is the more valuable, as it is evident that early in 1914 the writer had heard the plans for a "death-blow to the Austrian Emperor" discussed.
The land-holders like to think of the mouths they are responsible for feeding so very poorly, and the busy housewife jingles her keys from weaving-room to embroidery frame, from the little tienda on the ground floor, where she sells vino, cigars, and betel-nut, to the extemporized bakery in the kitchen, where they are making rice cakes and taffy candy, which an old woman will presently hawk about the streets for her.
Several of the corps diplomatique became inspired! They saw visions and made prophesyings. Von Falkenturm, the German military attache, was shouting out, 'We've got to fight. We're going to fight! We don't care who we fight! Russia, France, England: yes, the whole lot of them! The man was drunk, of course; but, after, all, in vino veritas.
But for Kolb, their manager, and Madame Kolb, who is as much attached to them as her husband, they could scarcely have lived. Why, how much had they with La Verberie! A thousand francs a year perhaps." Corentin drew Derville aside and said: "In vino veritas! Truth lives under a cork.
A country lad appeared, carrying a small hamper, wherein the party had brought their midday meal from Salerno. "Why did you trouble?" said Mallard. "We have cheese and salame in abundance." "So I supposed," Spence replied, drily. "I recall the quality of both. Also the vino di Calabria, which is villanously sweet. Show us what point of view you chose." For an hour they walked and talked.
No, he could not say about thirty in the band, perhaps. He What? Yes, he had alfalfa and, if they wished, other things beans and rice and canned goods. No, the renegades had not wholly cleaned out the store. Yes, he had matches. No, they had not What? Vino? To be sure he had Vino! He would get how many bottles? right away!
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