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...nd the chin stood freely out from a fine neck and throat. After a space an Austrian war-steamer was discerned puff- ing out of the harbour of Laveno. ... ...ttered one behind them gruffly. “When I see this king swallow one ounce of Austrian lead, I shall not be sorry to follow him!” 8 Vittoria “Right, my ... ...m; “and I will then compose his hymn of praise. He has swallowed enough of Austrian bread. He took an Austrian wife to his bed. Who knows? he may some... ...trian wife to his bed. Who knows? he may some day declare a preference for Austrian lead. But we shall have to follow him, or stay at home drivelling.... ...ld what was to be said of a pas- sionate glorious heart at rest, thanks to Austrian or vassal- Sardinian mercy. So they lay there and discussed their ... ...! what a throat she has!” “And well interjected, Giulio! It runs down like wine, like wine, to the little ebbing and flowing wave! Away with the glass... ...ongue. Will you drink?” “Dry!” quoth Luigi. “Holy San Carlo is a mash in a wine- press compared with me.” Barto Rizzo handed him a liquor, which he dr... ...weet, and that he was in the claws of the Great Cat. He had met Barto in a wine- shop. He cursed the habit which led him to call at that shop; the thi... ...head; and it suits me not to be disturbed. Do this, and we will have a red-wine evening in the house, shut up alone, my snake! my pepper-flower!” It h...

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...m the least collecting of men, but I have brought home Italian cartridges, Austrian cartridges, the fuse of an Austrian shell, a broken Italian bayone... ...and desola- tion. One day on the Carso he had been near the newly captured Austrian trenches, and suddenly from amidst a scat- tered mass of Austrian ... ...t had struck him as odd, and so too had the sight of a pack of cards and a wine flask on some newly-made graves. The ordinary life was a very obstinat... ...things of the past now in Udine. Udine keeps itself dark nowadays, and the Austrian sea-planes, which come raiding the Italian coast country at night ... ...ndian corn and suchlike lush crops. Always quite soon one came to some old Austrian boundary posts; almost everywhere the Italians are fighting upon w... ... taken a week or so before my arrival; the Isonzo had been crossed and the Austrians driven back across the Carso for several miles; all the resources...

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...to reflect about it. “Is he ill?” I said to myself. “Has he drunk too much wine? Is he ruined by a drop in the Funds? Is he thinking how to cheat his ... ...at time the French army, commanded by Augereau, was manoeuvring before the Austrians, who then occupied the right bank of the river. The headquarters ... ...r landlord, who was boasting of Andernach, his inn, his cookery, the Rhine wines, the Republican army, and his wife, were all three listening with a s... .... “Messieurs,” said the merchant, “permit me to offer you a few bottles of wine to wash down the carp. We’ll ease the fatigues of the day by drinking.... ...oth- ing remained on the table but biscuits, cheese, dried fruit, and good wine, the guests, chiefly the young Frenchmen, became communicative. The la... ...ng for ten years.” They talked thus like men whose tongues are loosened by wine, and they each took that friendly liking to the others of which we are... ...o secure himself impunity. The other bank of the river was occupied by the Austrian army; below the windows lay a boat and boatman; he would cut the t... ... escape with the valise; gold would buy the boatman and he could reach the Austrians. He went so far as to calculate the professional ability he had r...

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...to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their... ...o suit the time and opportunity—to prac tise imposture upon the British and Austrian millionaires. In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his count... ...emmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack—but in the matter of old wines he was sincere. In this respect I did not differ from him materiall... ... of its fellows that lay upon the mould. “Drink,” I said, presenting him the wine. He raised it to his lips with a leer. He paused and nod ded to me ... ...the heel.” “And the motto?” “Nemo me impune lacessit .” “Good!” he said. The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled. My own fancy grew warm w... ...We shall have many a rich laugh about it at the palazzo—he! he! he!—over our wine—he! he! he!” The Cask of Amontillado 8 “The Amontillado!” I said. “...

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...ells, and his Ariadne lost! Singular to say, Trenck, in these years, sells wine; not indeed in bottle, but in wood. Nor is our England without her mis... ... misspent! In faded naval uniform, Paul Jones lingers visible here; like a wine-skin from which the wine is all drawn. Like the ghost of himself! Low ... ...ered their ca-ira. A vintner has wheeled in, on Patriot truck, beverage of wine: “Drink not, my brothers, if ye are not dry; that your cask may last t... ...ayette may double that number. In lowly parlour, as in lofty sa- loon, the wine-cup passes round; crowned by the smiles of Beauty; be it of lightly-tr... ...and, might lie Counter-Revolu- tion itself, sale to Exiled Princes and the Austrian Kaiser: treacherous Aristocrats hoodwinking the small insight of u... ...hension, with mutual exaspera- tion. It was but in these days that certain Austrian troops, marching peaceably across an angle of this region, seemed ... ...oniteur, Seance du 9 Aout 1790.) A matter of mere diplomacy it proved; the Austrian Kaiser, in haste to get to Belgium, had bargained for this short c... ..., is much divided: Aristocrats abound; Patriotism has both Aristocrats and Austrians to watch. It is Lorraine, this region; not so illu- minated as ol... ...ps disdainfully express the same in words, and ‘soon after fly over to the Austrians. ’ So that when it here as elsewhere comes to the question of Arr...

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...of the lands his family had formerly owned on terra firma, and sold to the Austrian government. This little income spared our handsome Emilio the igno... ...the lagoon from Mestre to Venice, between the lines of stakes painted with Austrian colors, which mark out the channel for gondolas as conceded by the... ..., and unable to sell the statues, stairs, paintings, sculp- ture, which an Austrian decree had made inalienable! T o live on a foundation of piles of ... ...id Croesus, if he could have seen him; and he drank floods of capital port wine. “Now I understand the knowing little air she put on as she said, ‘Til... ... human being and made another after its own image. Thousands of bottles of wine had disappeared under the purple archway of that prepos- 16 Massimill... ...d that the manager had tried in vain to induce her to appear with him. The Austrian General, on the other hand, asserted that it was the Duke who was ... ...mmanded to make amends to the public. The Duchess owed this visit from the Austrian General to the fact that a French physician had come to Venice who... ...owns. He had had all the palace furnished, had imported a French cook, and wines of all lands. So the supper was a regal enter- tainment. The Prince, ... ...praja alone had understood the case put by the French physician. While the wine of Cyprus was loosening every tongue, and each one was prancing on his...

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.... Nevertheless, we ought in justice to say that while he accepted casks of wine, and took care of himself in all the purchases that he made for the co... ... moustache.” Oscar, anxious to play the man, swallowed the second glass of wine, and ate three more cheese-cakes. “Good wine, that!” said Pere Leger, ... ...se it comes from Bercy. I’ve been to Alicante myself, and I know that this wine no more resembles what is made there than my arm is like a windmill. O... ...e resembles what is made there than my arm is like a windmill. Our made-up wines are a great deal better than the natural ones in their own country. C... ...ly that I, for one, was released with an injunction from the mayor and the Austrian commissary of police to go back to Rome. Zena, who let the heirs o... ...hat Dalmatian prison, thrown there without protection, having to answer to Austrians and Dalmatians, and in danger of losing my head because I went tw... ...e inn-keeper. “Can’t you stay and breakfast? The colonel here pays for the wine at fifty sous, and has ordered a bottle of champagne.” “I can’t. I’ve ...

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...e no doubt prompting him to make his visits, and good- fellowship and good wine to prolong them. “Faith,” says Westbury, “the little scholar was the f... ...s Grace, in which he hoped that as Don Scipio had formerly served with the Austrians against the French, ’twas to be hoped that his Excellency would n... ... Excellency would now declare himself against the French King, and for the Austrian in the war be- tween King Philip and King Charles. But his Excelle... ..., burning down the merchants’ storehouses, get- ting drunk with the famous wines there, pillaging and robbing quiet houses and convents, murdering and... ...the tavern, and calling toasts (as the fashion of that day was) over their wine, Esmond thought of persons—of two fair women, whom he had been used to... ...and my Harry was likely to die: and my brain was in a fever; and we had no wine. But now—now you are come again, bringing your sheaves with you, my de... ...lver-clocked stockings.” “I think we had best leave the gentlemen to their wine and their talk,” says Mistress Beatrix, rising up with the air of a yo... ...know my Father in any garment, black or white, shaven or bearded;” for the Austrian officer was habited quite in the military manner, and had as warli... ...d a little excited by wine, which was dealt out much more liberally by the Austrian than by the English commander:— ”Now,” says my general, slapping t...

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...ielded, one would say); and preparing to besiege Verdun? Clairfait and his Austrians are encompassing Thionville; darkening the North. Not Metz-land n... ...King, with his sixty thou- sand, will beleaguer Verdun; and Clairfait and Austrians press deeper in, over the Northern marches: ‘a hundred and fifty ... ...ere. He spreads out the map of this forlorn war- district: Prussians here, Austrians there; triumphant both, 24 The French Revolution - V olume Three... ... cut down; the sabres need sharpening, the killers refresh themselves from wine jugs. Onward and onward goes the butchery; the loud yells wearying dow... ...bably to this day. (Bombardement de Lille (in Hist. Parl. xx. 63-71).) The Austrian Archduchess (Queen’s Sister) will herself see red artillery fired;... ...cle! Hap- pily, in these days, he can enlist, and have himself shot by the Austrians, in an unusually satisfactory manner: for the Rights of Man.—But ... ... by him, than (as he now bethinks himself) Louis gave him a large glass of wine. Which large glass of wine did produce in the stomach of Sieur Gamain ... ...he vote is not La Mort. In these Galleries there is refection, drinking of wine and brandy ‘as in open tavern, en pleine tabagie.’ Betting goes on in ... ...ers Fraternels; Mercier, ii. 150.) See it O Night! With cheerfully pledged wine-cup, hobnobbing to the Reign of Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood, with t...

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...ntcornet commanded the cuirassiers at the battle of Essling (called by the Austrians Gross-Aspern), and came near perishing when that noble corps was ... ...lorious resolution, at Montcornet’s command, to turn and resist the entire Austrian army, which carried off on the mor- row over thirty wagon-loads of... ...The curate of Gross-Aspern took us to the famous cemetery where French and Austrians struggled to- gether knee-deep in blood, with a courage and obsti... ...de of a giver of holy water; “perhaps you can tell me why con- ductors and wine-merchants are so fond of it?” 27 Balzac Blondet, a master of irony, a... ...to her head to come and preach morality or something! There’s lots of good wine to get out of it.” After these last instructions, which the sly look i... ...way opened a cellar built of Bur- gundy brick, containing several casks of wine. Though the kitchen utensils of the peasantry are usually only two, na... ...h coun- try air, this cottage exhaled the same strong and nauseous odor of wine and food which assails you in Paris as you pass the door of the cheap ... ...the loss of his wife, he tried to drown his troubles, like the English, in wine, and then, when he had put the poor deceased out of his mind, he found... ...ed sudden orders to advance through Hungary and cut off the retreat of the Austrian army in case the Emperor won the battle of Wagram. Michaud told me...

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... his arms ‘gan unlace, Him to comfort and solace. Him was brought a sop in wine. ‘The head of that ilke swine, That I of ate!’ (the cook he bade,) ‘Fo... ...th were placed portions of salt at the usual distances, but neither bread, wine, nor water. The ambassadors, rather surprised at 12 The Talisman this... ...upplied by venison, cranes, and other dainties, accompanied by the richest wines. The king then apologized to them for what had passed, which he attri... ...nought avail, Though he for-bar us our vitail, 13 Sir Walter Scott Bread, wine, fish, flesh, salmon, and conger; Of us none shall die with hunger, Wh... ...with all the other Christian princes—with Philip of France, with that dull Austrian, with him of Montserrat, with the Hospitallers, with the T emplars... ... false law, I would aid him with my sword to drive this scum of French and Austrians from his dominions, and think Palestine as well ruled by him as w... ...ay be possible to put some open rupture betwixt the Frenchman—at least the Austrian— and his allies of England, so that the breach shall be irrecon- c... ... and other personal reasons, the King of England very soon looked upon the Austrian Prince with feelings of con- tempt, which he was at no pains to co... ...incely ban- quet. Their dress seemed equally fantastic to him, many of the Austrian nobles retaining their long beards, and almost all of them wearing...

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...ng for Italy—like a thing underground! My father did something against the Austrians, when he was a young man. Would not I have done it? I am sure I w... ...true woman—so they are, most, in Italy! She gave him food; maize-bread and wine, sometimes meat; sometimes a bottle of good wine. When my father think... ...spaper, of my father’s friends and old companions shot and murdered by the Austrians. He read it in the evening, after we had a quiet day. I thought h... ...at I want is to be an accurate singer. My music-master was a German—not an Austrian—oh, no!—I’m sure he was not. At least, I don’t think so, for I lik... ...e time I could not sleep. I laughed at myself for composing. He was not an Austrian: but when he was alive he lived in Vienna, the capi- tal of Austri... ...but when he was alive he lived in Vienna, the capi- tal of Austria. He ate Austrian bread, and why God gave him such a soul of music I never can think... ...les of those Erzhogs, as you call ‘em, over in Germany. Simple fare; sound wine! At all events, it won’t hurt you. You’ll come?” Mr. Barrett bowed, mu... ...ere really stormed by Mr. Barrett’s elegant tail. When, the first glass of wine nodded over, Mr. Pole continued the discourse of the morning, with all... ...at shall be the condition of the spirit of man according to the degrees of wine or beer in him, were surely of priceless ser- vice to us. For now must...

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...ry, where some “liberal” pranks had made him an object of suspicion to the Austrian Government. Count Andrea Marcosini had been welcomed in Paris with... ...nd sometimes very agreeable, es- pecially when he has had a few glasses of wine—which does not often happen, for he is desperately poor; night and day... ... o-morrow, after dinner, we will have a little supper. I will send in some wine and little dishes.” The cook bowed. Andrea spent the following day in ... ...a humble home. In the evening the Count made his appearance, and found the wine, according to his instructions, set out with some care by Marianna and... ...nterfering. Giardini, who had not stinted himself while helping Gambara to wine, was quite willing. Gambara, without being drunk, was in the condition... ...ing me that your client’s mind was clearer after drinking a few glasses of wine.” “Yes,” cried the cook, “and I can see what your plan is.” “If it is ... ... few days ago,” replied An- drea. “I mentioned you to the secretary of the Austrian Em- bassy, and you have permission to recross the Alps as soon as ...

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...dity, presided at what George called her own table. George pooh-poohed the wine and bullied the waiters roy- ally, and Jos gobbled the turtle with imm... .... George was evi- dently of quite a different taste; for when he had taken wine enough, he went off to half-price at the play, to see Mr. Kean perform... ...nd the war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave... ...of Boney’s that’s fit to hold a candle to Wittgenstein. Then there are the Austrians, they are five hundred thousand if a man, and they are within ten... ...ing his winnings, and went to a buffet, where he drank off many bumpers of wine. Here, as he was rattling away to the people around, laughing loudly a... ... was flushed and jovial. ‘’Hullo, Dob! Come and drink, old Dob! The Duke’s wine is famous. Give me some more, you sir”; and he held out a trembling gl... ...ainst any force Boney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed... ... They were six to one at Montmirail, and he scattered them like sheep. The Austrian army is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its h...

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...istence. He had made for himself a practice in some obscure little town of Austrian Galicia. And the letter went on to tell me how all the bereaved po... ...rom houses and chased all the way to the river-bank by a disorderly mob of Austrian Dragoons and Prussian Hussars. The bridge had been mined early in ... ...an a half sheet of foolscap or so. This relative of ours happened to be an Austrian officer who had left the service after the battle of Austerlitz. U... ...me.” A deputation to that effect visited X, who treated them to excellent wines, but absolutely refused his ear to their remonstrances. As to the pro... .... Nicholas B., bidding good-bye to his hospitable relative, the “fearless” Austrian officer, departed from Galicia, and without going near his native ... ...t he was a great man as long as he was content to thrash those Germans and Austrians and all those nations. But no! He must go to Russia looking for t... ...s but a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. I have tried to be a sober worker all my life—all my two lives. I did... ... like a lump of frozen moonlight, to “break a crust and take a pull at the wine bottle.” I was familiar with the procedure. The stout boat emptied of ... ...he classic sea when in a gentle mood. The crust broken and the mouthful of wine swallowed— it was literally no more than that with this abstemious rac...

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...tence. He had made for him- self a practice in some obscure little town of Austrian Galicia. And the letter went on to tell me how all the bereaved po... ...rom houses and chased all the way to the river bank by a disorderly mob of Austrian Dra- 51 Joseph Conrad goons and Prussian Hussars. The bridge had ... ...an a half-sheet of foolscap or so. This relative of ours happened to be an Austrian officer, who had left the service after the battle of Austerlitz. ... ... to that effect visited X, who 53 Joseph Conrad treated them to excellent wines, but absolutely re- fused his ear to their remonstrances. As to the p... .... Nicholas B., bidding good-bye to his hospitable relative, the “fearless” Austrian officer, departed from Galicia, and without going near his native ... ...t he was a great man as long as he was content to thrash those Germans and Austrians and all those nations. But no! He must go to Russia looking for t... ...s but a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. I have tried to be a sober worker all my life—all my two lives. I did... ... like a lump of frozen moonlight, to “break a crust and take a pull at the wine bottle.” I was familiar with the proce- dure. The stout boat emptied o... ...e classic sea when in a gentle mood. The crust broken, and the mouthful of wine swallowed—it was liter- ally no more than that with this abstemious ra...

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..., and did really provide them with a very bad dinner with a sort of Balkan wine, which did not, how- ever, prevent them from being very jolly, as Shub... ...ff to Moscow for Nikolai Artemyevitch; with him galloped the butler to buy wines, pies, and all sorts of provisions; Shubin was commissioned to hire a... ...ne in my day.’ Shubin attached him- self to Zoya, and kept pouring her out wine; she refused it, he pressed her, and finished by drinking the glass hi... ...you—’ began Nikolai Artemyevitch, and he could not go on: he drank off the wine; they, too, drank off their glasses. ‘Now you should drink, gentlemen,... ...ughty voice behind them. The heavy thud of horse’s hoofs was heard, and an Austrian of- ficer in a short grey tunic and a green cap galloped past them... ...etry—that’s the only word for it! But one thing’s really awful: the cursed Austrians meeting one at every turn! ah, these Austrians! By the way, have ... ...ng and devoted to the Slavonic cause. He despised the T urks and hated the Austrians. ‘How long must you remain at Venice?’ Elena asked him in Italian...

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...s at this minute (rather flushed with his joint of mutton and half pint of wine), taking out his pencil and scoring under the words “foolish, twaddlin... ... give way to any ebullitions of private grief. A seed-cake and a bottle of wine were pro- duced in the drawing-room, as on the solemn occasions of the... ... at this occurrence. He and Joseph Sedley drank a fitting quantity of port-wine, tete-a- tete, in the dining-room, during the drinking of which Sedley... ...rary, was the great chief and dandy of the Swishtail Seminary. He smuggled wine in. He fought the town- boys. Ponies used to come for him to ride home... ...id the cause of Fair Rosamond’s retiring from the world? Was not a bowl of wine the cause of the demise of Alexander the Great, or, at least, does not... ...id. “The French are very strong, sir,” Dobbin went on. “The Rus- sians and Austrians will be a long time before they can bring their troops down. We s... ...of Boney’s that’s fit to hold a candle to Wittgenstein. Then there are the Austrians, they are five hundred thousand if a man, and they are within ten... ...ainst any force Boney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed... ... They were six to one at Montmirail, and he scattered them like sheep. The Austrian army is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its h...

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...e for us, with a carriage, diamonds, an opera-box, and so forth. Russians, Austrians, Britons, have millions on which we have an eye. Besides, we are ... ...e second, starting four hours later, brought the news of the defeat of the Austrians. Du Bousquier cursed Kellermann and Desaix; he dared not curse Bo... ...t it: ‘Beauty is ever a queen,’ said the Emperor. And he, you know, was an Austrian-German,” added the chevalier. “But I can tell you that Germany, wh... ...topic of conversation, having given rise to various little jokes which the wine rendered sparkling. Following the example of the recorder, each guest ... ...and he has just arrived; he ran like Penelope! Can’t I give him a glass of wine?” “What can have happened, Josette? Do you think my uncle can be—” “He... ...lence of the dinner; but his silence was praise. As he drank the delicious wines which Jacquelin served to him pro- fusely, he seemed to feel he was w...

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...se, where was a well, or reservoir, in which he had been cleansing a small wine cask; and a sunburnt contadino, in his shirt-sleeves, showed himself o... ...bsorb the olive oil that kept the precious liquid from the air. “This is a wine,” observed the Count, “the secret of mak- ing which has been kept in o... ...ng likewise a little into his own. “But first smell its fragrance; for the wine is very lavish of it, and will scatter it all abroad.” “Ah, how exquis... ...d will scatter it all abroad.” “Ah, how exquisite!” said Kenyon. “No other wine has a bouquet like this. The flavor must be rare, indeed, if it fulfil... ...valuable liquor was of a pale golden hue, like other of the rarest Italian wines, and, if carelessly and irreligiously quaffed, might have been mistak... ... ity—as a supernumerary finger, or an anomalous shape of feature, like the Austrian lip—is wont to show itself in a family after a very wayward fashio... ...a del Popolo, at one extremity of the course, and before the palace of the Austrian embassy, at the other, and by the column of Antoninus, midway betw...