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He produced a decanter of gin, and was bustling about for hot water and sugar, when he found that his visitor had already drunk half of the decanter's contents. With hot water and sugar the visitor drank the remainder before he had been an hour in the chambers by the chimes of the church of St. Mary in the Strand; and during the process he frequently whispered to himself, 'Mine!
To keep the audience continually diverted she slipped the doubtful items in between the old favourites. Mr. Holohan called to see her every day to have her advice on some point. She was invariably friendly and advising homely, in fact. She pushed the decanter towards him, saying: "Now, help yourself, Mr. Holohan!" And while he was helping himself she said: "Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid of it!"
But nowadays the precious juice of a long-dead vintage is transferred carefully into a cut-glass decanter, and stands side by side with the sherry from a corner grocery, which looks just as bright and apparently thinks just as well of itself.
Lawton still stops at the tavern?" "Hasn't showed his head all morning," answered Mr. Aiken. "Ah," said my father, "perhaps he is right in concealing such a useless member." And he helped himself from the decanter, seemed to hesitate for a moment, and continued: "And Mr. Jason Hill he has been to call, Ned. Have you seen him since?"
The squire was very cheery this evening; from what cause cannot now be said. Perhaps he had succeeded in negotiating a further loan, thus temporarily sprinkling a drop of water over the ever-rising dust of his difficulties. "Well, Frank, what have you been after to-day? Peter told me you had the black horse out," said he, pushing the decanter to his son.
Hanmer, "you must surely see that Lady Vyell wants you all to herself. Yet I dare say the captain and I will be strolling around to the stables before long." "Ay, when this decanter is done," agreed Captain Harry. "That was rather pretty of you," said Ruth, as she and the boy went down the terrace stairs together.
"Courage! courage!" said Henry although his voice betrayed what a terrible state of anxiety he was himself in; "you will find water in that decanter, Charles. Here is my mother, too! Another visit! God help us!" Mrs. Bannerworth sat down on the edge of the sofa which was in the room, and could only wring her hands and weep. "Avast!" cried the admiral, making his appearance.
But you are made of a material I do not know it but it is not flesh and blood. Nevertheless we must not part bad friends." She turned to the table and, pushing aside the jewels as if they had been colored glass, pulled toward her a tray, and took up a glass decanter. She poured two glasses of wine, and taking one, gracefully held it out to me. "Will you not drink to his acquittal?" she asked.
She understood the value of being a woman, did Violet. And she didn't let herself go cheap I used to get the key of the tantalus and cart a whole decanter of whisky to bed to get over it. If she'd just have let me kiss her " He paused, frowning reminiscently. Marcella sighed, and laid a cool, firm hand on Louis's. "Louis I think I'm cheap."
The man you saw trying to be jocose with Templandmuir was a very different being from the autocrat who "downed" his fellows in the town. It was all "How are ye the day, Templandmuir?" and "How d'ye doo-oo, Mr. Gourlay?" and the immediate production of the big decanter.
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