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Title: The essays of Leigh Hunt
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945, ed Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew), 1875-1960 illus
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Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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an you ask me that question, Mr Honeycomb — you, who have known me long ? — Well, if anybody that ever kept a shop can do it, it is you: and I tell you what;—if you do, depend upon it, no success will be like yours. Good fortune produces abuse of it; but the abuse is always as impolitic, compared with a genuine policy, a scunning is inferior to wisdom. If there were any one shop in London, in which the customer for a series of years were sure to find one undeviating goodness of article, the phenomenon would attract and retain all eyes. And these cigars: the boy tells me they are excellent also. Is this true? — I can tell you one thing they say of them, by which you may judge for yourself; they say they are smuggled.— O, ho! And snatch a grace beyond the reach of law. You know how the law picked my pocket once. Before that time, I was so tender of conscience, that when I was at Hastings I would not purchase a toy or a pair of gloves that was contraband; whereas now—I will not ask you to
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COFFEE-HOUSES & SMOKING 113 make me certain whether the articles are smuggled or not—say no more—rest your insinuating fame on that. But a prettier tasted cigar — a leaf with a finer tip of flavour in it, — pray, how many cigars might a man smoke of an evening? I have a great mind to try. But I must look at your publications. By the way, you have no pipes, I see; and I observe no bottles. Have you neither pipes nor wine ? — No, we are exclusively cigar; we have coffee, sherbet, lemonade — all reasonable Oriental drinks to harmonise with our divan, but nothing to disturb the peace of it. Thus we secure a certain domestic elegance indoors, and can prevent drunkards from coming in to get drunker. A gentleman may come from his dining or drawing room,and still find himself in a manner at home. Besides, a cigar is the mildest as well as most fashionable form of tobacco taking; and as it is no longer the mode to drink wine, wine is not sought after. That is all very good for you; but for m

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