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A servant beside him held a wickered jug. "With your leave, M'sieu," said De Courtenay, "I wish to leave some earnest of my gratefulness for what we have received at your hands. Therefore accept with my compliments this small gift, which, as you say you have no cantine salope, must come most happily. Once more, farewell." The man set down the jug at McElroy's feet and strode toward the landing.
Annixter, in execrable temper, appeared from time to time, hatless, his stiff yellow hair in wild disorder. He hurried between the barn and the ranch house, carrying now a wickered demijohn, now a case of wine, now a basket of lemons and pineapples.
Mine too, thy lofty Justice Hall, with its one chair of authority, high-backed and wickered, once the terror of luckless poacher, or self-forgetful maiden so common since, that bats have roosted in it.
There was a general laugh at this sally, in which the tall foreman joined; and with that we saw a lad bringing out a little table into the shadow of the stone-shed, which he set down there, and then going back, came out again with the inevitable big wickered flask and tall glasses, whereon the foreman led us up to due seats on blocks of stone, and said: "Well, neighbours, drink to my brag coming true, or I shall think you don't believe me!
"Oh, but," she said, laughing over her shoulder as she led the way into the parlour, "Have you the gift of good fortune that you bring to me for this next year? I hope you have. Here is the wine. My husband gets it when he goes to Ancona. The wine of Umbria. You like it?" "To next year," I said as she filled two glasses from a large wickered flask. "And what is left of this," I added.
Then he turned back into the gate and the tender mouth that was all Irish above the square Scottish jaw was set tight together. His foot touched the wickered jug and he called Jean Saville. "Take this, Jean," he said, "and give each of the men a cup. 'Tis a shame to waste it." But for himself he had no taste for the stranger's gift of payment.
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