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Jason had a liberal supply of puritanical notions, which were bred in-and-in in his moral, and I had almost said, in his physical system; nevertheless, he could unbend; and I did not fail to observe that very evening, a gleam of covert enjoyment on his sombre countenance, as the hot-stuff, the cards, and the pipes were produced, an hour or two before supper, a meal we always had hot and comfortable.
He seemed to be extremely nervous, and this nervousness palpably increased when the impudent page, who was standing in the lobby, giggled on hearing his inquiry. "He's second floor," said the youth. "Are you from Hot-Stuff Jarvis?" "That's right, lad," replied the visitor, speaking with a marked Manchester accent; "from Mr. Jarvis."
It was Evacuation-Day, and severely cold, and the hot-stuff pleased everybody, on such an occasion. Nor was this all. In passing Whitehall slip, I saw the Ohio's first-cutter lying there, and it happened that I not only knew the officer of the boat, who had been one of the midshipmen of the Constellation, but that I knew most of its crew.
How short-lived they were, and how completely I was the slave of a vicious habit, will be seen, when I confess that I landed in New York a good deal the worse for having treated some militia-men who were in the steamer, to nearly a dozen glasses of hot-stuff, in crossing the bay. I had plenty of money, and a sailor's disposition to get rid of it, carelessly, and what I thought generously.
Beneath the snug characteristics of the latter-day student his sweet abhorrence of a rag, his nasty delight in plays which he calls 'hot-stuff, his cigarettes and his chess-playing beneath these my head, like Henley's, is bloody but unbowed. Forgive a tear." The shower ceased; the tea was finished; the pretty waitress was coyly singeing her modesty in the attractive candle of Mr.
Now it became the earnest wish of Commissioner O'Neill that these hot-stuff articles should be written for him by his friend V.V., of the reformatory passions and the pen of a ready writer. And, the whole subject having been discussed several times in an indecisive sort of way, O'Neill one night whacked out a jagged argument.
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