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You must take her away as soon as possible." A year after, in Naples, the ladies received these few lines from the padre: "God in his infinite mercy has taken my son to himself." MR. NATHANIEL NOKES, a Retired Wine-Merchant. MR. CHARLES NOKES, his Nephew. MR. ROBINSON, MR. SPONGE, MR. RASPER, Friends of Mr. Nokes the Elder. Waiter. SUSAN, Housemaid at the Hotel of the Four Seasons. Landlady.
The Sieur Cadenet, the wine-merchant, in view of the custom which he owed to the usurer, had let him the two rooms for the low price of eighty francs a year, and had given him a lease for twelve years, which Cerizet alone had a right to break, without paying indemnity, at three months' notice.
She sat, looking at her new master, with a face that had turned deadly pale, and with eyes that expressed an unutterable dismay. "What does this mean?" asked the wine-merchant. "Stop!" he cried. "Is there something else in the past time which I ought to associate with you? I remember my mother telling me of another person at the Foundling, to whose kindness she owed a debt of gratitude.
While he is laying the cloth, you fix on your dinner, and, in little more than a quarter of an hour, you have one or two elegant courses, dressed in a capital style, set out on the table. As for wine, if you find it cheaper, you can procure that article from some respectable wine-merchant in the neighbourhood.
Will you find him a place in the Stamp Office?" "With pleasure." "No, now I think of it, the man knows my ways: I must keep him. But my old wine-merchant civil man, never dunned is a bankrupt. I am under great obligations to him, and he has a very pretty daughter. Do you think you could thrust him into some small place in the Colonies, or make him a King's Messenger, or something of the sort?"
However, the wine-merchant knows; it is enough if you tell him you have come from his customer, the pauper of Saint-Sulpice." "No need to tell me anything twice," said the Cardinal, opening the door and making, as they say, a false exit. "Ah ca!" she said, coming back; "what does he burn in his stove, supposing I want to heat some remedy for him?"
'Oh! you must first believe the woman to have one. 'You are working on it? 'By fits. And I forgot, Mr. Redworth: I have mislaid my receipts, and must ask you for the address of your wine-merchant; or, will you? Several dozen of the same wines. I can trust him to be in awe of you, and the good repute of my table depends on his honesty.
The other Directors get three hundred. This Lord Plowden is one of them but I'll tell you more about him later on. Then there's Watkin, he's a small accountant Finsbury way; and Davidson, he's a wine-merchant who used to belong to a big firm in Dundee, but gets along the best way he can on a very dicky business here in London, now.
Dobell, the elder of the two, and the longer lived, though both died comparatively young, was a Kentish man, born at Cranbrook on 5th April 1824. When he was of age his father established himself as a wine-merchant at Cheltenham, and Sydney afterwards exercised the same not unpoetical trade.
He is a wine-merchant, and occupies, as his counting-room, the entire second floor. The place is desolate-looking and dusty, and the furniture old with service; but, I am told, no man in Paris controls more of the grand vintages than M. Pontalba. With a Frenchman, the legality of a transaction depends on its being negotiated in a café; and it was in one of these I first saw him.
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