Beef-tea is wine, love, Champagne is beer, Wet days are fine, love, When thou art near.

And they don't even know that champagne is the proper thing!

Further, there would be special articles proving, for instance, that champagne is the one drink on which all breeds of chickens increase and multiply their production of eggs, especially if hot caviare is afterwards administered in large bowls.

A glass of Heidseck will bring you up to concert pitch.' Champagne was Lady Kirkbank's idea of a universal panacea; and she had gradually succeeded in teaching Lesbia to believe in the sovereign power of Heidseck as a restorative for shattered nerves.