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"You'll feel as if you'd been here all your life by the time you get all these and my old bath slippers on," said Jane saucily. "Come into my room as soon as you're arrayed in all this glory there's a little cake left and I'm going to do my best to find some ginger-ale."
"Yes," said Simpson, getting up, "that's the worst of it. I told her it was quite out of date, and that only the suburbs wore fashions a year old, but she insisted on it. I had no idea she was that sort of girl. Well, I'm in for it now." He sighed heavily and went off for another ginger-ale.
It is possible thus to accustom one's self; but I distinctly remember being on one occasion so thirsty as to give fifty cents for a glass of ginger-ale, and poor at that.
"Wri'!" George returned to his letter. "Thank you ever so much for your note, which Albert gave to me. How very, very kind of you to come here like this and to say . . . "Hey, mister!" "Good Heavens!" George glared. "What's the matter now? Haven't you found that ginger-ale yet?" "I've found the ginger-ile right enough, but I can't find the thing." "The thing? What thing?" "The thing.
Before we started breakfast he put a glass down in front of me and said: "There's a good ginger-ale, it will warm you up." I tasted it; it was rum, hot. I said nothing. What could I say? There was some joke about Jack being married and settled and steadied down, and me, his old mate, still on the wallaby; and Mrs Thomas said that I ought to follow Jack's example.
"'Ullo!" said the youth. "Hullo, Alphonso!" said George. "My name's not Alphonso." "Well, you be very careful or it soon may be." "Got a note for yer. From Lidy Mord." "You'll find some cake and ginger-ale in the kitchen," said the grateful George. "Give it a trial." "Not 'arf!" said the stripling. George opened the letter with trembling and reverent fingers.
"Fiz," said one, alluding to the empty champagne cases, a suggestion which was at once overruled, as we were a temperate family and little given to sparkling liquids. "Pop" was also voted against, not only as being vulgar, but as going to the other extreme, and leading people to suppose that we were extensively addicted to ginger-ale.
You probably had a light breakfast, eh, and are feeling a little peckish, yes? If you will wait here, I will run to the clubhouse and get you a sandwich and a bottle of ginger-ale. Make yourself quite at home, you lovable little fellow! Sit down and have a good time!" I turned the pages of Professor Rollitt's book feverishly.
There was a formality and publicness about it that kind of weakened my nerve. I never won a fight in the ring. Light-weights and all kinds of scrubs used to sign up with my manager and then walk up and tap me on the wrist and see me fall. The minute I seen the crowd and a lot of gents in evening clothes down in front, and seen a professional come inside the ropes, I got as weak as ginger-ale.
The only liquor they are allowed to sell to the soldiers is a light beer, about three per cent. alcohol, which is manufactured in small home-made breweries at every cross-road and is consumed by the Flemish people in lieu of the water, which is very bad in the low country, and only fit for cooking, also a light native wine with about the strength of ginger-ale, and the taste of vinegar.
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