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"I seem to need a cocktail," he said, in another tone. "Isn't that the prescription for all of us, doctor?" "Yes," assented Hinman, smiling, "and, after that, complete change of subject!" We tried to follow Dr. Hinman's prescription, but not with any great success, for it is difficult to talk about one thing and think about another.
"Certainly. Boots, if you'll move aside " "Let Boots give it to me!" exclaimed the child tragically. "It will do no good; I'm not getting better; but if I must take it, let Boots hold me and the spoon!" She sat straight up in bed with a superb gesture which would have done credit to that classical gentleman who heroically swallowed the hemlock cocktail.
You ain't too nice to partake of a cocktail, are you? Good! Then we'll have one. What's the hotelkeeper's name?" "Timmons." "Do you suppose he'd come up if I pounded on the floor?" Miss Donovan slipped off the bed. "I don't believe he is in the office. He went up the street just before dark. You light the lamp while I'll see if I can find the Chinaman out in the hall."
On our way home night before last Hep and I dropped into the Saint Astormore for a cocktail, and at a table near us sat Pop Goober and something else which afterwards turned out to be a Prussian nobleman the Count Cheese von Cheese. When Hep got a flash of these two his goat kicked down the door of its box-stall and began cavorting all over the Western Hemisphere.
"We all understand that," said Cleopatra, kindly; "and we are all prepared to acquit you of any responsibility for the advanced condition of wickedness to-day. Man has progressed since your time, my dear grandma, and the modern improvements in the science of crime are no more attributable to you than the invention of the telephone or the oyster cocktail is attributable to your husband."
"All he needs is an index an' a few illusthrations to make him a bicyclopedja iv useless information." "Well," said Mr. Hennessy, judiciously, "he ain't no Soc-rates an' he ain't no answers-to-questions colum; but he's a good man that goes to his jooty, an' as handy with a pick as some people are with a cocktail spoon. What's he been doin' again ye?" "Nawthin'," said Mr.
After the first cocktail or two, and after a little of this grateful petting, he had some difficulty in keeping himself from getting too expansive, in holding himself down to becoming modesty, in not talking too much. He quite realized the meaning of this sudden cordiality; but he welcomed it as another endorsement, from the highest, most unimpeachable sources, of his cleverness and legal acumen.
Clouds of incense rose before Miss Gussie Fink and she sniffed it unmoved, her eyes, beneath level brows, regarding savory broiler or cunning ice with equal indifference, appraising alike lobster cocktail or onion soup, traveling from blue points to brie. Things a la and things glace were all one to her.
Well, I have some bourbon here. Perhaps that will " "I'll have to be excused from taking anything." "Really? It will do you good. You've been having a session with the governor and those Wall Street sharks, and it seems to me you need something after that." "I don't think I need anything, thank you." "Well, later on we can have a cocktail before dinner. Which do you prefer, a Manhattan, or a "
Why, I don't believe his own wife or sister, if he had such appendages, would have been able to tell that you weren't the man." "Unfortunately," Bridges remarked, as he sipped the cocktail which the cinema man had ordered, "this chap Romilly was broke, wasn't he? did a scoot to avoid the smash-up?
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