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Preliminary remarks on re-entering the States Americanisms A little slang Liquoring up Eccentricities in dress A 'cute chap down east Conversation on eating A Kentucky gal Lake Champlain Delaval's A noisy serenade Albany Beauties of the Hudson The Empire City. It has been truly observed that a reliable book on the United States yet remains to be written.
"Can you tell me, Have my son and his servant been here lately?" "Your two young men were up here not ten minutes ago. They've gone back to the boat, I guess. They're no great hands at liquoring. If you shout they'll hear you."
He was then put through the manual, which seemed to indicate all possible motions save that of liquoring up, and when he was so fatigued that he had not the energy even to fall down, he was clasped in the arms of Madame Francine, who had traced him to the barracks, but was too late to avert his destiny. "Oh! mon amant!" she cried, falling upon his neck. "Why did you go and do it?
The letter began without preamble: "We made this port Genoa last night. All day we have been discharging cargo. Half my crew has gone ashore, set on liquoring and wenching after the manner of unregenerate sailor-men all the world over. The other half follows their bad example to-morrow, as we shall be lying idle in honour of the Christmas festival.
And he told the Commissionsrath all that had happened to him from the time when he first came across the mysterious and fabulous sort of Goldsmith, till he had made his escape from the winehouse as fast as he could, in his terror at the sorcery which was going on there. "Tussmann, old fellow," said Bosswinkel, "I see what it is, you're not accustomed to liquoring up.
"No that is, not particularly. So you sail in a fortnight, do you?" "'You sail? What do you mean? Why, we all sail, of course, from the colonel down to the drummer-boy." "I don't think that I I am going to sail, Jack," was the hesitating answer. "Look here, old fellow, are you off your head, or have you been liquoring up, or what?"
I like to have women in the same room with me. But at these hotels I found myself driven away propelled as it were by some unknown force to absent myself from the feminine haunts. Anything was more palatable than them, even "liquoring up" at a nasty bar, or smoking in a comfortless reading-room among a deluge of American newspapers.
The gentleman drank rather more than was good for him: he couldn't keep on his legs, and went out to the street staggering." "Don't you see," Bosswinkel said, "this is what comes of that terrible habit of liquoring up? You'll have to leave it off, I can assure you, if you're going to be my son-in-law."
Jervis looked about him cautiously, and: "That's George the red-headed hooligan against the counter," he said. "He's been liquoring up pretty freely, and I shouldn't be surprised to find that he's got a job on tonight. He has a skiff beached below here, and I think he's waiting for the tide." "Good!" rapped Kerry. "Where can we find a boat?" "Well," Jervis smiled.
"Why, amost anywheres but here, jist down by the first bridge, there's a hull heap leastwise there was a Friday and then you'd best go on to the second bridge, and keep the edge of the hill right up and down to Merrit's Island; and then beat down here home to the first bridge again. But won't you liquor?" "No, not this morning, John; we did our liquoring last night.
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