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And what would they have? Same as usual, of course; a half-pint cup all around, and a glass of lemon water apiece. This would make the fourth chocolate that tia Picores had downed that fore-noon; but the stomachs of those tough daughters of the sea were poison proof, and they could sip gallons of that imitation "Venezuela" with the gusto of sybarites. Nothing to beat chocolate!
"It's queer I took sick so quick," said Bahama Bill, an hour later, when he felt better. "What did you eat and drink?" asked Anderson Rover. "I ate a tongue sandwich one o' them was handed around awhile ago. I put it in my bunk room when I got it and ate it on going to bed. It made me sick the minit I downed it." "I ate one of those sandwiches and it didn't hurt me," said Fred.
After this abrupt, not to say ambiguous reminiscence, the Old Cattleman puffed contentedly a moment. "What murder trial was this you speak of?" I asked. "Who had been killed?" "Now I don't reckon I ever does know who it is gets downed," he replied. "This yere murder trial itse'f is news to me complete.
I'm not so sure, though, that Tom will One thing's certain. He won't go up to Michamac right away." "He won't? Why not? It's just the time for him to get the run of things, now while there's no work going on." "He'd catch on quick enough. It's not that. Fact is, he's got hold of something a lot bigger, and I know he'll not quit till he has either won out or it has downed him.
Being a freak wasn't going to be much fun. He saw the girl again next day, when they checked in for blastoff. She was seated at a small desk, triangular like so much of the Lhari furniture, checking a register as they came out of the Decontam room, making sure they downed their greenish solution of microorganisms. "Papers, please?" She marked, and Bart noticed that she was using a red pencil.
"He wouldn't have downed me so easy if I had had anything in me," he muttered, and his anger grew as he thought of all he had been made to suffer. For he was still the swaggerer. Now that the incubus of his father's tyranny no longer pressed on him directly, a great hate rose within him for the tyrant. He would go back and have it out when he was primed.
I am a sure winner," he continued, and looking at his hand, I saw the old familiar four queens and an ace, with which I had downed so many suckers. I must say I wanted to see him get it in the neck, and I was not disappointed. I took chances, and loaned him $500, and when I saw Longworth's would-be son putting it in his pocket that was the last time I ever beheld that money.
They took a train for Paris, and reaching the city just a week before the end of the German drive they found it worse than Italy. But there Hal had a special pull and by the use of those wits of his, not to be downed by refusals, he got passage at last for Laura, himself and his new Italian partner.
"I don't know," said the Judge, reflectively, to Robie, breaking the silence in his rasping, judicial bass, "I don't know as there has been such a night as this since the night of February 2d, '59; that was the night James Kirk went under Honorable Kirk, you remember knew him well. Brilliant fellow, ornament to Western bar. But whisky downed him.
He could only stand smiling and shaking his head, until he saw they would not be denied; and then, at last, the lad who had faced and downed popular prejudice all through his cadet life, who had faced foes at the Point and foes on the plains faced them with dauntless front and determined will who had stood like a rock at the front of the enemy, trembled now like a leaf in the sight of his friends, and so, for the first time, shrank back and fled.
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