Crossword-Solution: CHANDON 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Paul Chandon, who had known Kietz since boyhood, had interested himself in the ruined painter by taking him into his house, and giving him a number of commissions for portraits.

Chandon from Epernay came, too, with a hamper of 'Fleur du Jardin,' the finest of all his champagne brands.

Poor Kietz was struck dumb with disappointment, and Chandon's 'Fleur du Jardin' was growing sour in the storeroom.

There are a variety of stores for sale on the shelves, and I was interested to notice the cheerful promiscuity with which bottles of cyanide of potassium and perchloride of mercury were scattered among bottles of carbonate of soda, of alum, of Moët and Chandon (spurious), of pickles, and Howard's quinine.

There was a good reason why the waiter remembered this occurrence--the two gentlemen had a bottle of the best champagne, a rare occurrence at the Hotel Ravenna--a whole bottle, for which the surprising sum of twelve shillings and sixpence was charged! In proof of that startling episode in the restaurant routine, he produced the desk book for that day--behold it, the entry: Number 5--1 Moet & Chandon, 12_s._ 6_d._ "It is of a rare thing our customers call for wine so expensive," said the polite manager.