[Lord Ormont and his Aminta by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookLord Ormont and his Aminta CHAPTER XIII 39/43
Wait: a dozen of Mr.Eglett's cigars.
Brisk with all the orders.
Go.' She turned to Weyburn.
'You pack your portmanteau faster than a servant will do it.' He ran up-stairs. She was beside the tray to welcome and inspirit his eating, and she performed the busy butler's duty in pouring out wine for him.
It was a toned old Burgundy, happy in the year of its birth, the grandest of instruments to roll the gambol-march of the Dionysiaca through the blood of this frame and sound it to the spirit.
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