The Company Consisted Of
The Chief Dignitaries Of The Island, Including The Bishop,
The Chief Justice, Etc.
Etc., some of them in uniform,
and all with holiday faces.
As soon as the door was
opened, Count Trampe tucked me under his arm - two other
gentlemen did the same to my two companions - and we
streamed into the dining-room. The table was very prettily
arranged with flowers, plate, and a forest of glasses.
Fitzgerald and I were placed on either side of our host,
the other guests, in due order, beyond. On my left sat
the Rector, and opposite, next to Fitz, the chief physician
of the island. Then began a series of transactions of
which I have no distinct recollection; in fact, the events
of the next five hours recur to me in as great disarray
as reappear the vestiges of a country that has been
disfigured by some deluge. If I give you anything like
a connected account of what passed, you must thank
Sigurdr's more solid temperament; for the Doctor looked
quite foolish when I asked him - tried to feel my
pulse - could not find it - and then wrote the following
prescription, which I believe to be nothing more than an
invoice of the number of bottles he himself disposed of.
[Footnote: Copy of Dr. F.'s prescription : -
vin: claret: iii btls.
vin: champ: iv btls.
vin: sherr: 1/2 btl.
vin: Rheni: ii btls.
aqua vitae viii gls.
trigint: poc: aegrot: cap: quotid:
C. E. F.
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