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TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 71 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 71 71. Port Wine. In ten minutes the masters slept not so the servants ---hungry and more thirsty than hungry. Blaisois and Musqueton set themselves to preparing their bed which consisted of a plank and a valise. On a hanging table which swung to and fro with the rolling of the vessel were a pot of beer and three glasses. This cursed rolling said Blaisois. I know it will serve me as it did when we came over. And to think said Musqueton that we have nothing to fight seasickness with but barley bread and hop beer. Pah But where is your wicker flask Monsieur Musqueton Have you lost it asked Blaisois. No replied Musqueton Parry kept it. Those devilish Scotchmen are always thirsty. And you Grimaud he said to his companion who had just come in after his round with D Artagnan are you thirsty As thirsty as a Scotchman was Grimaud s laconic reply. And he sat down and began to cast up the accounts of his party whose money he managed. Oh lackadaisy I m beginning to feel queer cried Blaisois. If that s the case said Musqueton with a learned air take some nourishment. Do you call that nourishment said Blaisois pointing to the barley bread and pot of beer upon the table. Blaisois replied Musqueton remember that bread is the true nourishment of a Frenchman who is not always able to get bread ask Grimaud. Yes but beer asked Blaisois sharply is that their true drink As to that answered Musqueton puzzled how to get out of the difficulty I must confess that to me beer is as disagreeable as wine is to the English. What Monsieur Musqueton The English -- do they dislike wine They hate it. But I have seen them drink it. As a punishment. For example an English prince died one day because they had put him into a butt of Malmsey. I heard the Chevalier d Herblay say so. The fool cried Blaisois I wish I had been in his place. Thou canst be said Grimaud writing down his figures. How asked Blaisois I can Explain yourself. Grimaud went on with his sum .