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"Ill!" said he, with a sort of fearful gayety, "ill no: I never was so well; I have been in a dream till now; but I have woke at last. Why, it is true that I have been silent and shy, but I will be so no more. I will laugh, and talk, and walk, and make love, and drink wine, and be all that other men are. Oh, we will be so merry! But stay here, while I fetch a light."
Of course, though but just risen from breakfast, the inevitable invitation to eat and drink awaited us; and another half-hour was spent in sipping cups of coffee poured out for us with much laughter by our hostess and her pretty daughter. At last, the necessary libations accomplished, we rose to go.
It couldn't fiddle and sing; it couldn't settle its little troubles after the good old fashion of fist and skull; it couldn't charge up and down the streets on horseback if it pleased; it couldn't ride over those puncheon sidewalks; it couldn't drink openly and without shame; and, Shades of the American Eagle and the Stars and Stripes, it couldn't even yell. No wonder, like the heathen, it raged.
"And not be beaten," added Coupeau gaily. "But I will promise never to beat you, Madame Gervaise, if you will agree to what I ask. I will promise also never to drink, because I love you too much! Come now, say yes." He lowered his voice and spoke with his lips close to her throat, while she, holding her basket in front of her, was making a path through the crowd of men.
Continued to follow it down, winding and twisting about very much to almost every point of the compass. At seven miles from the pools found a little more water, but not a drop between. Allowed the horses to drink what there was, and proceeded down it. I sent Thring to follow it on one side, while I and the rest of the party kept on the other.
Some of them took to drink, or got into trouble with the police, and went off disappeared into the woods. A year or two later there was a report that they were living up on the Mountain. Then I suppose others joined them and children were born. Now they say there are over a hundred people up there. They seem to be quite outside the jurisdiction of the valleys.
* 'Put up a drink' i.e., 'Give me a drink on credit', or 'Chalk it up'. She shook her head tightly and went on reading. He staggered up, and, leaning on the bar, made desperate distress signals with hand, eyes, and mouth. 'No! she snapped. 'I means no when I says no! You've had too many last drinks already, and the boss says you ain't to have another.
"Like a little change from the hills?" "Let's go and get something to eat," said one of the other men, who rode up. "I want somethin' different from ranch cookin'. Ain't a first-class cook myself." Sid was glad to eat bread that did not have yellow streaks in it. He was glad to have some meat, too. But, after eating, the other man said to Dave: "Come take a drink."
"It's merely a glass of water. You might have noticed that I did not drink any water with my dinner. I take it a little later." Upon this I had to make a show of interest and ask him the reason. He began to give the history of his dyspepsia.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
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