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Thereupon, spurred on by pain, revived by the tepid, acrid liquor that moistened my lips, I tore desperately at the nail and at last I wrenched it off! I then believed in success. My plan was a simple one; I pushed the point of the nail into the lid, dragging it along as far as I could in a straight line and working it so as to make a slit in the wood.
While they ate, dipping their toast in the coffee, buttering and rebuttering it, they chattered as tirelessly as if they had been deprived of each other's society and confidence for weeks. The morning was dark and foggy, and a coal fire slumbered in the grate, giving out a bitter, acrid smell.
"No, no," said he; "I spent two nights under a ceiling which rained bugs upon me, and I know a good bed when I've got it." Coffee and cigarettes came in, of the best, and the rakia was a thing apart from the acrid stuff we were accustomed to. He admitted its superiority. The plums came from his own estate, and were distilled by the monks.
But little Dinkie, obviously excited by the music, shouted "A-more! A-more!" so we went on, disregarding Whinnie and the bunk-house window and Struthers' acrid stare from the shack-door. I was in the middle of Fay Templeton's lovely old Rosie, You Are My Posey, when Lady Alicia rode up, as spick and span as though she'd just pranced off Rotten Row.
Never have I heard English women handled as M. Paul that morning handled them: he spared nothing neither their minds, morals, manners, nor personal appearance. Oh! he was spiteful, acrid, savage; and, as a natural consequence, detestably ugly. "Little wicked venomous man!" thought I; "am I going to harass myself with fears of displeasing you, or hurting your feelings?
The impalpable adobe dust of the arena was being whirled into the air by the strong onset of the afternoon trade winds, which happily, however, helped also to dissipate a reek of garlic, and the acrid fumes of cheap tobacco rolled in cornhusk cigarettes.
Louie was not merely let off scot-free for what she did, but was to have every happiness given to her. Why? The old problem of her Confirmation year pressed itself on her, only now she felt less mournful and more acrid. Her troubles made her peevish and disagreeable, as was apparent from Minna's kindly admonition.
Malcolm Herrick used his Englishman's right of grumbling to a large extent; with a sort of bitter and acrid humility, he would accuse himself of having missed his vocation and his rightful heritage, of being neither "fish, flesh, nor good red herring;" nevertheless his post for the last two years had pleased him well: he was connected with a certain large literary society which gave his legal wits plenty of scope.
Celia sprang to her feet, caught at the curtain as another terrific blast shivered the window-panes and filled the room with acrid dust. Through the stinging clouds of powdered plaster Colonel Craig entered the room, hastily pulling on his slashed coat as he came. "There's a fort in the rear of us don't be frightened, Celia. I think they must be firing at "
But whatever there was in him originally had been changed. Upon the wild stem had been grafted a nobler slip, which drew all its sap from the old root, but had civilised and sweetened its acrid juices. He leaned over his wife, caressed her, gave her water, and restored her. "God knows," he said, "I did not mean to preach to you. God in heaven knows I need that somebody should preach to me."
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