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Though coffee-drinkers first met with much ridicule from wits about town, and writers of broadsheet ballads, the beverage became gradually popular, and houses for its sale quickly multiplied.
So out came the famous White Ale, with the long-stemmed glasses proper to drink it from, and a dish of ratafias to corroborate the stomach. And behold, all was bowing and compliments and enmity forgot, till Lord William happened to say "Strong stuff, Squire eh? The Major should look to his head with it, after his morning tankard: but for coffee-drinkers like you and me I reckon there's no danger."
Brede Olsen has rented the house; an outbuilding it had been, belonging to the storekeeper, but done up now with two sitting-rooms and two bedrooms; none so bad, and in a good situation. The place is well frequented by coffee-drinkers and folk from round about the village going by the boat.
With a proud smile she set down a jug about as large as a milk-jug for two coffee-drinkers, and withdrew. Smiling to herself, Brigit dressed and then went into her sitting-room, and opening a window looked down into the street. It is a most important thoroughfare, this Rue d'Argentin; the Rue de la Paix de Falaise. Leaning out the window and looking to her left Brigit beheld the Place St.
The shops under the colonnades that inclose it upon three sides were shut; the caffes, before which the circles of idle coffee-drinkers and sherbet-eaters ordinarily spread out into the Piazza, were repressed to the limits of their own doors; the stands of the water-venders, the baskets of those that sold oranges of Palermo and black cherries of Padua, had vanished from the base of the church of St.
"I should think you were running a seminary for young ladies, instead of a logging-camp," said Bartley. "No, but look at it: I'm in earnest about tea. You look at the tea drinkers and the coffee-drinkers all the world over! Look at 'em in our own country! All the Northern people and all the go-ahead people drink tea. The Pennsylvanians and the Southerners drink coffee.
This was sufficient to arouse the enmity of the wily Oates, who had the knight haled before the council and closely examined. Sir Philip explained that he had only said he knew of no other than a fantastic plot, but, as a contemporary letter puts it, "Oates had got ready four shrewd coffee-drinkers, then present, who swore the matter point blank."
Lazet rose from his chair as if he knew his answer would exasperate Gaston, and that from words they would come to blows. "I did," he said, with an insolent smile: "I mentioned the name of the pretty little fairy of La Verberie." All the coffee-drinkers, and even two travelling agents who were dining in the cafe, rose and surrounded the two young men.
And here was a man who was known in the great world, rich, young and handsome. The other gazed dreamily at the ceiling; from there his gaze traveled about the coffee-room, with its gathering of coffee-drinkers, and at length came back to his vis-a-vis. "You will return to Washington?" he asked. "I shall live there for the winter; that is, I expect to."
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