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Boulby cruelly retorted; "I won't send you home to your wife;" which created a roar against this hen-pecked man. "As to consequences, Missis, it's for your sake I'm looking at them," Sedgett said, when he had recovered from the blow. "You say that to the Excise, Mr. Sedgett; it, belike, 'll make 'em sorry." "Brandy's your weak point, it appears, Missis."
When he had finished, Trent took up the cards, which he had shuffled for Poker, and dealt them out for Patience. Monty's eyes were dim with disappointment. "What!" he cried. "You don't agree! Did you understand me? Fifty pounds, Trent! Why, you must be mad!" "Oh, shut up!" Trent growled. "I don't want your money, and the brandy's poison to you! Go to sleep!"
Why pull the young gentleman off his horse? I'd ha' given pounds to be there!" "Pounds o' tallow candles don't amount to much," quoth Robert. "That's awful bad brandy at 'The Pilot," said Mr. Sedgett, venomously. "Were you drunk when you committed this assault?" Jonathan asked his son. "I drank afterwards," Robert replied. "'Pilot' brandy's poor consolation," remarked Mr. Sedgett.
"I've not talked so much at once't for months. You might take a little more, maybe. No? well, you hardly need it. Good brandy's powerful dear, these times." Dr. Deane had too much tact to accept the grudging invitation. After the old man had drunk, he carefully replaced the bottle and glass on their accustomed shelf, and disposed himself to leave.
"DT," remarked the skipper of the Cormorant, who could hardly speak because of a bad cold, and who thus curtly referred to the drunkard's complaint of delirium tremens. "Nothin' o' the sort!" growled Joe. "I've not seed a coper for a week or two. Brandy's more in your way, Groggy Fox, than in mine. No, it's mulligrumps o' some sort that's the matter wi' me."
"You are very snug and warm there; the keg of brandy's on the left-hand side of the fire, though I'm afraid there's not very much left of it now that my friend of Achnatra here has had his will of it.
"Which, sir, I will, though Mr. Bimby I won't answer for, 'im being busy with the pore young man as 'e brought 'ome last night it's 'im as the brandy's for. Ye see, sir, though doleful, Mr. Bimby's very kind 'earted, and 'e's always a-nussing somebody or something last time it were a dog with a broke leg ah, I've knowed 'im bring 'ome stray cats afore now, many's the time, and once a sparrer.
I should like to find out; but he's such an old savage when the brandy's in his head, that I don't half like to question him " Here Zack's reflections were interrupted by the voice of his eccentric friend. "Did you ever meet with a man of the name of Carr?" asked Mat. He looked away from young Thorpe, keeping his eyes steadily on the rifle, and rubbing hard at the barrel, as he put this question.
Then, with an inscrutable and not altogether pleasant flicker in his eyes, "Not a bad looker, eh, Red?" McVey emptied the glass. "Brandy's hell foh a woman," was his enigmatical reply. An hour later they gained her apartments unobserved, the hotel corridors being deserted at that hour.
Boulby was down at Warbeach Farm, and being directed to Farmer Eccles in the stables, she found the sturdy yeoman himself engaged in grooming Robert's horse. "Well, Missis," he said, nodding to her; "you win, you see. I thought you would; I'd have sworn you would. Brandy's stronger than blood, with some of our young fellows." "If you please, Mr.
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