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To-day he really behaved outrageously; and, since the priest maintained a straight countenance, I think the wonder is that he didn't excommunicate him. 'I remember you were a teetotaller, André, when you were young, his host began, pushing a decanter towards him. 'That, monsieur, was because my mother wished it, and my father was a drunkard, André answered bluntly.
The dining-room door opened and Sarah came in, looked about, found the decanter, and withdrew. "Where is that gentleman?" the old man demanded. "Mr. Pryor went in to dinner," she said faintly. "Please excuse him; he was tired." The silence that fell between them was like a blow. ... Mr.
He said to himself: "I know how to manage. Now it will be all right!" But at the end of an hour he had emptied the decanter, and his agitation was worse than ever. A mad longing possessed him to throw himself on the ground, to bite, to scream. Night fell. A ring at the bell so unnerved him that he had not the strength to rise to receive his seconds.
Carl poured himself some whiskey and pushed the decanter toward his guest with a significant glance. Jokai of Vienna poured and drank with a shudder of nausea. "We've a new chessboard," said Carl. "It's most ingenious. Hunch spent a large part of his valuable morning shopping for it. The board and chessmen are metal and I myself have added one or two unique improvements.
In his right hand he held the decanter of offending port, in his left a sound cork. He said firmly: "This wine isn't corked, m'lord. Its flavour is perfect. Besides, a cork like this couldn't cork it." A less sensitive man than Lord Loudwater might have risen to the double emergency. Lord Loudwater could not. He sat perfectly still.
I had not failed to notice that we had sat down and were halfway through dinner and father's hand had not motioned Dabney towards the decanter and ice and siphon on the sideboard.
Crane set out a decanter of whisky, which spirit he mixed sparingly with his cider, as did also his guest none too sparingly.
I watched; but I dare say you know that there could have been nothing inimical in this low behaviour of mine. On the contrary. I'll tell you now what he was doing. He was helping himself out of a decanter. I saw every movement, and I said to myself mockingly as though jeering at Franklin in my thoughts, 'Hallo!
In the old days, you know, he was a clerk in our office in Chicago." Garvey rattled on and Shorthouse listened with occasional remarks thrown in. The former seemed pleased to have somebody to talk to and the sound of his own voice was evidently sweet music in his ears. After a few minutes, he crossed over to the sideboard and again took up the decanter of whisky, holding it to the light.
But the effort had deprived my poor companion of all power of speech; his laboring lungs shrieked like the wind; he could just point to the door by which we had entered, and which I shut in obedience to his gestures, and then to the decanter and its accessories on the table where he had left them overnight.
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