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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Good wine's good wine, no matter who pours it! 'S bud! in my young days men called a truce and forgot they were foes when the bottle went round!" "If Captain Percy will stay," quoth my lord, "I will give him welcome and good wine. As Master Pory says, men cannot be always fighting. A breathing spell to-day gives to-morrow's struggle new zest." He spoke frankly, with open face and candid eyes.
So much for claret and champagne. I begin to be quite unfit for a good fellow. Like Mother Cole in the Minor, a thimbleful upsets me, I mean, annoys my stomach, for my brains do not suffer. Well, I have had my time of these merry doings. "The haunch of the deer, and the wine's red dye, Never bard loved them better than I."
Wickham, we meet again!" and his brother, "We never have such cold in Albemarle, Mr. Lynch! Ha, your fire is good, and your wine's good, and your company's good. There's a table by the fire, Ludwell." They moved to it, exchanging greetings, as they went, with half the room, sat down, drank each a glass of wine, and fell to their letters, careless of the surrounding war of words.
"They will not fall out, they will not straggle, but if they come to a place where wine's in plenty, they will make bastes of themselves; and after all," he added, "after the work they have gone through, who is to blame them?" At the halt the next evening at Bembibre the colonel's forebodings that the men could not be trusted where liquor was plentiful were happily not verified.
What though, about thy rim, Scull things in order grim Grow out, in graver mood, obey the sterner stress? "Look not thou down but up! To uses of a cup, The festal board, lamp's flash and trumpet's peal, The new wine's foaming flow, The Master's lips a-glow! Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel?"
At that moment the orchestra struck up again. It was a two step, and for once Alec and the beautiful Maude failed to make an appearance. "Where's the kid?" said Kars sharply. "Sitting around, I guess." Bill craned carefully. Then he sat back. "See him?" demanded Kars. "Sure. They're together. A bottle of wine's keeping them busy." A look of impatience flashed into the eyes of Kars.
Wilkins rushed from the room bearing in his hand the decanter of offending port; Holloway followed him to help. Lady Loudwater sipped a little port from her glass. She was rather inclined to take no one's word for anything which she could herself verify. Then she took another sip. Then she said; "Are you sure this wine's corked?"
One of its most ethereal charms lay in the transitory life of the wine's richest qualities; for, while it required a certain leisure and delay, yet, if you lingered too long upon the draught, it became disenchanted both of its fragrance and its flavor.
Fermentation, of course, as every village idiot knows. No, I take it when the Bible says wine it means wine. Wine's fermented liquor, and what's unfermented liquor? Nothing but 'pop." Dick pronounced the last word with profound contempt, which was met with enthusiastic applause.
Upon which Shandon said, "Yes; he's kind to the children; but he's savage to the men; and to be sure, my dear, you don't understand a word about what I'm saying; and it's best you shouldn't; for it's little good comes out of writing for newspapers; and it's better here, living easy at Boulogne, where the wine's plenty, and the brandy costs but two francs a bottle.
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