Whilst the ministers at the altar were complaining of the want of the wine, the deacon took a cruet to the well, as it was his duty to procure and taste the water for the Holy Sacrifice.
It seemed to him high treason that his host should decline the dressing thus produced by an art which realized the dreams of alchemy, and should pour vinegar from the cruet with his own hand upon the helpless leaves.
I must confess, I looked upon that sooty drug which he held up in his cruet as the quintessence of English bordeaux, and therefore desired him to give me a glass of it by itself, which he did with great unwillingness.
But nevertheless she did not give up hope of finding "the cruet of Louis XVI," as Joseph called it.
And Joseph, too, with atrocious grimaces, was exclaiming: "The cruet of Louis XVI!
From the pepper cruet you may shake a cloud of something tasteless and melancholy, like volcanic dust.
You must remember that mustard, vinegar, oil and so on vanished with the cruet and the burglar.
He threw the cruet in the dustbin--where I found it, along with other silver--for the sake of a burglary blind.
The other cruet is carved elaborately with leopards, the first and taller one showing monsters and foliate forms.
A kind of cruet is recorded among early French table silver, "a double necked bottle in divisions, in which to place two kinds of liquor without mixing them.
That the Wopples family were favourites with the Ballarat folk was amply seen by the crowded house which assembled to see 'The Cruet Stand'.
The decayed family all rush in to buy the cruet stand, but on finding it gone, overwhelm the pawnbroker with reproaches, so that to quiet them he hides them all over the shop, on the chance that the dishonest steward will come back.
I may tell you that, in consequence of the great success of "The Cruet Stand", we play it again to-morrow night.
We certainly should not value the vinegar in our cruet any the more if we knew it comprised within it a dissolved pearl, nor should we treasure a lump of charcoal on account of its supposed relationship to some late lamented diamond.
