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`` Already ! And why ? '' `` I promised a worthy mason in the neighbourhood that I would go over his accounts with him this evening , and you have no idea what a task it is to straighten out books like his ! '' `` True , you did warn me that you would only be at liberty until seven o'clock , '' replied Gerald . `` I had forgotten the fact , I was enjoying my visit so much . '' `` Olivier , '' remarked the veteran , whose spirits seemed to have undergone a sudden decline since his nephew 's allusion to the work to which he intended to devote his evening , `` Olivier , as Madame Barbançon is absent , will you do me the favour to bring from the cellar the last bottle of that Cyprian wine I brought from the Levant ? M. Gerald must take a glass of it with us before we separate .