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Our object justifies any impropriety of time and place." "You are right, Father. I drink to our object. Yes, I say, to our object." In fact, the drinking preceded his speech, and his tongue already had a loop in it The liquor stole through him, a mist of bewildering and enchanting influence.
"Drink, then," said the doctor, bowing: "I rejoice that I have so well selected the subjects of my experiment." With palsied hands they raised the glasses to their lips. The liquor, if it really possessed such virtues as Doctor Heidegger imputed to it, could not have been bestowed on four human beings who needed it more wofully.
But today, with the flush of liquor on it, it had an impatient awkwardness and confused embarrassment that he could not account for. He did not comprehend that the genuine bully is seldom deliberate of attack, and is obliged in common with many of the combative lower animals to lash himself into a previous fury of provocation.
The King's new-made headship of the Church hath led men to practise these tricks lightly. She had turned white. 'That's not true, Roger! she said. 'You are in liquor, my brother, and you know not what you say! Your seafaring years have taught 'ee bad things! 'Edith I've seen them; wife and family all. How canst
Now, all this caused delay; and if Mary had been waiting for the "stingo," she would doubtless have had reasonable cause for anger and impatience: however, she, for her part, was so pleasantly occupied, like Prince Arthur's Queen, in counting out the money, that, to say the truth, both lord and liquor were entirely forgotten.
The seductive liquor was potent in his nostrils, even there it had stimulation; and Hartigan, acting on a sudden impulse, drained the glass, as the others drank in silence. There said Lowe, "You see it is the mildest of the mild; it wouldn't hurt a child."
Cæsar took a shallow glass of embossed blue and white bas-relief work, a triumph of Alexandrian art, poured into it a few drops of undiluted Cæcuban liquor, dashed down the potion, then dropped the priceless beaker on to the floor. "An offering to Fortuna!" he cried, springing from his couch. "My friends, let us go!"
The fellow's face was deadly pale, and his eyes were never once raised during the interview. He had evidently schooled himself for the part that he was to play, by imbibing deeply of some spirituous liquor, for he was rather unsteady in his gait; but that might have been the result of agitation as well as whiskey.
I knew that there was not a drop of alcoholic liquor in all northern Kamchatka, nor, so far as I knew, anything from which it could be made, and it was a mystery to me how they had succeeded in becoming so suddenly, thoroughly, hopelessly, undeniably drunk.
In her heart Janice did not believe Narnay was the person who had stolen the coin collection from the schoolhouse. He might have taken part in such a robbery, at night, and while under the influence of liquor; but he never would have had the courage to do such a thing by daylight and alone.