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The lout of a spokesman now filled his hat with brandy up to the brim, and held it out towards Maria. "Come, young sir," said he, "if you don't believe that there's poison in it, just taste for yourself and see." Maria, full of loathing, pushed aside the dirty hat-full of nauseous fluid. "You see! he won't drink it! he knows there is poison in it."
By this time some mighty railway authority had come upon the scene and made himself cognisant of the facts of the row, a stern official who seemed to carry the weight of many engines on his brow; one at the very sight of whom smokers would drop their cigars, and porters close their fists against sixpences; a great man with an erect chin, a quick step, and a well-brushed hat powerful with an elaborately upturned brim.
If they fill a cistern to the brim with rose-water, and let a dog fall into it, the whole will be contaminated." A zahid was the guest of a king. When he sat down at table he ate more sparingly from that than his appetite inclined him, and when he stood up at prayers he continued longer at them than it was his custom; that they might form a high opinion of his sanctity.
'You won't say that to-morrow morning, sir, returned Mr Tapley; 'nor even to-night, sir, when you've made a trial of this. With which he produced a very large tumbler, piled up to the brim with little blocks of clear transparent ice, through which one or two thin slices of lemon, and a golden liquid of delicious appearance, appealed from the still depths below, to the loving eye of the spectator.
The guests were indulging themselves in some of those post-prandial effusions which are apt to blossom from heads overheated by wine, and are generally richer in words than in wisdom. The host, with flattering preliminaries, had proposed the health of the ladies, and every goblet sparkled to the brim. Just at that moment a servant entered the room and whispered a few words in his ear.
Beyond the barricades and near the sea, where the low and narrow buildings were, lay the wounded and the fever-stricken; rude hospital enough! to some therein but a baiting-place where pain and panic and the miseries of the brain were become, for the time, their bed-fellows; to others the very house of dissolution, a fast-crumbling shelter built upon the brim of the world, with Death, the impartial beleaguer, already at the door.
How eagerly he would jump from the gate! How lovingly he would.... The elegant figure of Webster interrupted his reverie. Sam had never seen Webster before, and it was with no pleasure that he saw him now. He had come to regard this lane as his own property, and he resented trespassers. He tucked his legs under him, and scowled at Webster under the brim of his hat.
As it started and spread, little by little it brought out of the cheerless darkness all the features of the rough, homely, kind face, bent over and watching it so impatiently and yet half absently. It gave definition to the shapeless black hat, around the brim of which still hung filaments of tow, in the folds of which lay white splinters of hemp stalk.
She never again spoke of the flower-making, but one day, after watching Ann Eliza's laboured attempt to trim a spring hat for Mrs. Hawkins, she demanded impatiently that the hat should be brought to her, and in a trice had galvanized the lifeless bow and given the brim the twist it needed.
While the soldiers down there were massacring all who fell into their hands those were the orders, and I looked on at the butchery, for, rather than well, you can imagine that for yourselves through one of the doors there came a tall, extraordinary figure. The wide brim of a traveling hat concealed the features, and it was wrapped in one of the emperor's fool's mantles.
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