So I get half a dozen at a time.

Perhaps you will sympathize with me when I say that I have had to abandon my favorite brand.

I cannot get Villar y Villars that look like Celebros, and my wife is quicker in those matters than she used to be.

One day, for instance, she noticed that the cigars in my case had not the gold ribbon round them, and I almost fancied she became suspicious.

I explained that the ribbon was perhaps a little ostentatious; but she said it was an intimation of nutty flavor: and now I take ribbons off the Celebros and put them on the other cigars.
The boxes in which the Celebros arrive have a picturesque design on the lid and a good deal of lace frilling round the edge, and she likes to have a box lying about.