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Goddard moaned helplessly with every breath, in a loud, monotonous tone, very wearing to the nerves of those who heard it. "There is little to be done," said Doctor Longstreet at last. "He must be fed alternately a little beef tea and then a little weak brandy and water. We must try and keep the system up. That is his only chance. I will prescribe something and send it back by the groom."
A business friend of mine was in the same ship with him. Brandy was coming home to see his friends. He fell overboard and my friend saw him drown. It was in the Indian Ocean." "When was that?" "Last September." "Oh, then this one must be the other of course!" "No doubt of that, I think," said Potts, cheerily. Brandon rose. "I feel much obliged.
Neefit," said the young Squire, turning angrily to the man. "Mr. Neefit, you are perfectly welcome to as much brandy as you can drink, and my man will wait upon you while I'm away. Good morning." Whereupon Newton took up his hat and left the room.
On a table near the fireplace stood spirits. The maddened husband went to them, filled a tumbler half full with brandy, added a little water and drank it off. He poured more brandy into the glass and began to think. To Barbara his mind was as an open book and she read what was passing there.
Either practice is foreign to my nature and philosophy. I believe the happiest combinations of liquors are simple ones, containing no more than two ingredients, each of which should be noble that is to say, drinkable in its own right." He raised his fresh glass, containing brandy and arrack.
"You see, we haven't a license, stranger, to sell drinks, and they're pretty strict with us hereabouts. I generally let a man have it when I know him pretty well, but I can't say how it would affect you." "Have no fear on that score," returned the other. "Here's a five-dollar note for a pint bottle of brandy. Will that pay you?" "Yes," returned the innkeeper. It was the golden key.
She ordered Jane, on this fatal day, to pour a little laudanum into that tumbler that contained the vinegar, to see if, by applying it to her temples, it would not allay the terrible headache which she said had tormented her. Instead of pouring the poison into the vinegar glass, where would the Scotch Abigail empty the cruet but into the tumbler with the brandy in it?
I think if I did scream, I should certainly faint." James stopped and opened his medicine-case. "I think you had better take just a swallow of brandy," said he. The girl thrust back the bottle which he offered her with high disdain. "Brandy," said she, "just because I have been frightened a little! I should be ashamed of myself if I did such a thing.
"Yes, sir," said the native steward respectfully, as he placed a bottle of brandy and glasses on the skylight; "those men they tell me to-day that they would make a big fire to-night, because they have liberty. That is native fashion, sir." "Ah, I see," said Rawlings carelessly, dropping another pearl into a cigar-box which was placed between himself and the others.
The seats and the post were cleared away and uprooted respectively by that evening. Late summer weather is proverbially treacherous, and during dinner-time Mrs Collins sent up to ask for a little brandy, because her husband had took a nasty chill and she was afraid he would not be able to do much next day. Mrs Anstruther's morning reflections were not wholly placid.
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