Toby, placing his gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose, set our dinner to simmer and uncorked a demijohn of the old Verfeuille red which glowed in our glasses with the embers of old recollections of half-forgotten journeys and excursions of our youth by the light of the moon.∏

Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease!

Superextra brand of glass. Rare, such glass. Carbonate of lead, you know.

I would not undervalue the depth of his Notion; but perhaps he had heard that the Men of Toledo had store of good blade Mettle, and were excellent at Cutling