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Yet there they were, women, men, and children infants in arms, too, to a notable extent swarming along that vast thoroughfare, boozing outside the public-houses, investing their pence in "scratch-backs" and paper noses, feathers and decorations, as do their betters on the course at Epsom, under the feeble excuse of "waiting for the boats."
Well, he took me into an awful part of the town, down a filthy close, into some boozing ken I beg pardon, some thieves' public-house." "Oh, my dear friend," said Rosa, "were you not frightened?" "Shall I tell you the truth, or play the hero? I think I'll tell YOU the truth.
He was naturally light-hearted and magnanimous; not particular in minor matters; immoderately fond of spear-exercise and fencing, of gambling and boozing; even going to such excesses as spending his nights in houses of easy virtue; playing the fife, thrumming the harp, and going in for everything and anything.
It wasn't right, what had happened to him. A good worker like him, not a loafer or a drunkard, he could have understood in that case. "Papa Coupeau," said he, "broke his neck one day that he'd been boozing. I can't say that it was deserved, but anyhow it was explainable.
Louis laughed affably. "And no such cheap bargain," he commented, "seeing what wine costs here. But this is an interesting business." Tristan would concede nothing to the king's good-humour. "Where's the interest?" he asked. "A few bullies, bawds and bonarobas boozing together. You can keep the same company at court only a shade cleaner and not be out of pocket for the privilege either."
The Fortuna touched at Rio for water, and for supplies of food which might prove useful in case of scurvy. In due time the ship rounded Cape Horn, favored by the finest weather ever known in those latitudes by the oldest hand on board. The mate one Mr. Duncalf a boozing, wheezing, self-confident old sea-dog, with a flaming face and a vast vocabulary of oaths, swore that he didn't like it.
But it was Piers as he had never before seen him, white-lipped, unnerved, shaking. The hand that held the glass trembled almost beyond control. "What's the matter?" questioned Tudor in hazy wonder. "Have you been boozing, or have I?" And then, his perceptions growing stronger, he took the glass from the quivering hand and slowly drank. The draught steadied him.
She says you smell too much of the stable to be admitted to ladies' society; and last Sunday fortnight, when she did me the honour to speak to me last, said, "I wonder, Sir Charles Lyndon, a gentleman who has been the King's ambassador can demean himself by gambling and boozing with low Irish blacklegs!" Don't fly in a fury! I'm a cripple, and it was Lindonira said it, not I.
You know I wasn't in the craft when the thing came on board, but Joe Geary was, and it was one night when we were boozing over a stiff glass at the new shop there, the Orange Boven, as they call it, at the Pint of Portsmouth and so, you see, falling in with him, I wished to learn something about my new skipper, and what sort of a chap I should have to deal with.
"Well, then, that's all. Good luck. No boozing while you're on the job Afterward I don't care what you do. By-by." Bolles took his dismissal smilingly. Five hundred. It was easy. "If it's possible, he'll do it," said Martin. "But what's your campaign?" "Donnelly must remain another term. After that, oblivion. There'll be bids this fall. If Henderson's man wins, there'll be new aldermen.
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