The Prisoner in the Opal

When Mr. Julius Ricardo spoke of a gentleman--and the word was perhaps a
thought too frequent upon his tongue--he meant a man who added to other
fastidious qualities a sound knowledge of red wine. He could not
eliminate that item from his definition. No! A gentleman must have the
great vintage years and the seven growths tabled in their order upon his
mind as legibly as Calais was tabled on the heart of the Tudor Queen. He
must be able to explain by a glance at the soil why a vineyard upon this
si...