[Blind Love by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookBlind Love CHAPTER I 7/11
Mr.Mountjoy seemed to feel no interest in what he might have to drink.
"We have some French wine, sir." "Thank you, ma'am; that will do." When the bell rang again, and the time came to produce the second course of cheese and celery, the landlady allowed the waiter to take her place.
Her experience of the farmers who frequented the inn, and who had in some few cases been induced to taste the wine, warned her to anticipate an outbreak of just anger from Mr.Mountjoy.He, like the others, would probably ask what she "meant by poisoning him with such stuff as that." On the return of the waiter, she put the question: "Did the gentleman complain of the French wine ?" "He wants to see you about it, ma'am." The landlady turned pale.
The expression of Mr.Mountjoy's indignation was evidently reserved for the mistress of the house.
"Did he swear," she asked, "when he tasted it ?" "Lord bless you, ma'am, no! Drank it out of a tumbler, and--if you will believe me--actually seemed to like it." The landlady recovered her colour.
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