1 Athos, by signs, desired Grimaud to bring another bottle of wine.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN 2 They have some capital wine here--please to observe that in passing.
3 Well, the English like good wine, as you may know, monsieur; these have asked for the best.
4 When he had finished, he went to a table upon which was a salver with Spanish wine and glasses.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH 5 There is our wine in bottles, and our wine in casks; the beer, the oil, and the spices, the bacon, and sausages.
6 As he finished, the host entered with the wine ordered and a ham which, fortunately for him, had been left out of the cellar.
7 Athos was at home, emptying sadly a bottle of the famous Spanish wine he had brought back with him from his journey into Picardy.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN 8 Ah, if you speak in that way," said Athos, "you will break my heart, and the tears will flow from my eyes as the wine flowed from the cask.
9 Now through this ventilating hole I throw my lasso, and as I now know in which part of the cellar is the best wine, that's my point for sport.
10 Well, for my part," said Athos, "I found Aramis's Spanish wine so good that I sent on a hamper of sixty bottles of it in the wagon with the lackeys.
11 The leader of the posse would perhaps have doubted the sincerity of d'Artagnan if the wine had been bad; but the wine was good, and he was convinced.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF 12 It could not be said that it was wine which produced this sadness; for in truth he only drank to combat this sadness, which wine however, as we have said, rendered still darker.
13 In exchange for his silence Athos drank enough for four, and without appearing to be otherwise affected by wine than by a more marked constriction of the brow and by a deeper sadness.
14 Your affair is not bad," said Athos, after having tasted like a connoisseur and indicated by a nod of his head that he thought the wine good; "and one may draw fifty or sixty pistoles from this good man.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF 15 My faith, my good host," said d'Artagnan, filling the two glasses, "I asked for a bottle of your best wine, and if you have deceived me, you will be punished in what you have sinned; for seeing that I hate drinking by myself, you shall drink with me.
16 Sometimes in the midst of dinner, when everyone, under the attraction of wine and in the warmth of conversation, believed they had two or three hours longer to enjoy themselves at table, Aramis looked at his watch, arose with a bland smile, and took leave of the company, to go, as he said, to consult a casuist with whom he had an appointment.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS 17 And then he--a wanderer on the earth, a man without fortune, a man without family, a soldier accustomed to inns, cabarets, taverns, and restaurants, a lover of wine forced to depend upon chance treats--was about to partake of family meals, to enjoy the pleasures of a comfortable establishment, and to give himself up to those little attentions which "the harder one is, the more they please," as old soldiers say.
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