We gave him three cheers, and when the ambulance came up we took a pull at the champagne in honor of the Grand Duke's success.

Half an hour afterwards I took up some refreshmentssome sandwiches and a small bottle of champagne for the young ladyand then went back downstairs till Sir Horace rang for me to let the lady out, which was generally about midnight.

"Give me some wine, please," he said to the butler, trying to speak in his ordinary tone; but he knew that his voice was harsh and strained, knew that the butler noticed it, though the well-trained servant did not move an eyelid, but opened a bottle of champagne with solemn alacrity and poured out a glass.

Do you realise I've had as much as two and a half glasses of champagne to-night, out of the countless bottles you've ordered?

" I pulled out the bottle of champagne from my pocket.

Tradition has it that Francis I., Charles Quint, Henry VIII., and Pope Leon X. all possessed vineyards in Champagne at the same time.

I have called her a Lorrainer, not simply because the word is prettier, but because Champagne too odiously reminds us English of what are for us imaginary wines, which, undoubtedly, La Pucelle tasted as rarely as we English; we English, because the Champagne of London is chiefly grown in Devonshire; La Pucelle, because the Champagne of Champagne never, by any chance, flowed into the fountain of Domrémy, from which only she drank.

The season of first picking was always a great time, for the planter who brought the first bale of cotton into market at Memphis was presented with a basket of champagne by the commission merchants.

They ordered the best champagne out of the cellars and drank it, the men cleared all the cigar-boxes, and the women rummaged in the wardrobes until they seemed like a pack of hungry wolves.

It upset all his idea of propriety to see young ladies of eighteen tossing off their Moselle and their champagne as to the manner born.

What could be more simple, she suggested, than that monsieur should ballast his private yacht with champagne on the homeward voyage, make his landfall some night in the dark of the moon, and put the stuff ashore on his own property before morning.

"A ripping good dinner," he says; "get a skinful of champagne inside you, go to bed when it is light, and get up when you are rested."

" In one of the smaller refreshment rooms sat Mr. Selingman, a bottle of champagne before him and a wondrously attired lady on either side.

If you had had champagne during the luncheon, and coffee afterwards, I shouldn't have been surprised.

With a view to contributing some modest item towards the supper programme, I shoved the other bottle of champagne into my pocket, and then lighting a cigar, locked up the place, and set off for the creek by my usual route.

Every one crowned with flowers, and rum and champagne like the falls of Fautaua.

At the first moment he hastened to renew his alliance with the King of England, and to recommence war in Normandy, Picardy, and Champagne against the regent of France.