8/21 If there SHOULD happen to be anything in folk-lore, Mr Hay? One does not offer you Lafitte, captain, because I believe it is all sold to the railroad dining cars in your great country; but this Brine-Mouton is of a good year, and Mr Whish will give me news of it.' 'That's a queer idea of yours!' cried the captain, bursting with a sigh from the spell that had bound him. 'So you mean to tell me now, that you sit here evenings and ring up... by yourself ?' 'As a matter of historic fact, and since you put it directly, one does not,' said Attwater. |