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An intelligent man who had belonged to Colonel Joseph Segar almost the only Union man at heart in that region, and who for that reason, being in Washington at the time the war began, had not dared to return to Hampton served the staff of General Pierce.
He seemed much surprised that I did not smoke, and still more so when I told him it was not usual in England to smoke in company; for in Germany, after dinner and in the evening, when ladies are present, it is usual to smoke a segar.
Let us hope that our worthy has not been presented as being wholly without a sense of humor. He grinned as he looked upon this lamb in the uniform of Mars, and added, "I'm just naturally patriotic, I guess. Cap'n, 'll you have a drink?" "And a segar," added Mr. Ford. "Just one," says the Captain. "It's d d tiresome lookin' at mules all day in the sun." Well for Mr.
As for Marble, he lighted a segar, took his seat on the windlass, and sat in dignified anger, ready to explode on the slightest occasion, yet apprehensive he might be sent out of the ship, should he betray one-half of what he felt. Out of the ship neither of us was sent, however, the French probably feeling indisposed to be troubled with passengers in the narrow quarters they had for themselves.
What a funny thing it would be to show the Glasgow folks a bright specimen of a bought wife from the renowned State of South Carolina, with genuine aristocratic blood in her veins; yes, a pure descendant of the Huguenots!" said the mate, who was leaning over the rail where Manuel and Tommy were seated, smoking a segar and viewing the beautiful scenery around the harbor.
"I must confess, sir," says Deuceace, bowing, "that I had no idea of the happiness which awaited me in the shape of a mother-in-law." "No, you dog; no, no," says my lord, giggling: "old birds, you know, not to be caught with chaff, like young ones. But here we are, all spliced and happy, at last. Sit down, Algernon; let us smoke a segar, and talk over the perils and adventures of the last month.
'Twas the nine-thirty boat, and we landed and walked up-town through Twenty-second Street, Tobin being without his hat. On a street corner, standing under a gas-light and looking over the elevated road at the moon, was a man. A long man he was, dressed decent, with a segar between his teeth, and I saw that his nose made two twists from bridge to end, like the wriggle of a snake.
On the contrary, his eagles took flight with a rapidity suggestive of the old adage that "gold hath wings," and when, long after midnight, he stood upon the deserted street alone with Philip Searle and his reflections, he was a sadder and a soberer man. "Searle, I'm a ruined man." "You'll fight all the better for it," replied Philip, knocking the ashes from his segar.
It makes me indignant when I sees a youngster puffing away at a pipe or a segar; but never mind that, boys; do yez jist look over the top of our ould frind's head and tell me whether yez sees anything." "I have noticed that fine-looking rifle before," replied Howard; "I only wish each of us had such a one." "We will have that before we lave this mansion. Do ye mind that, boys?"
"'None of the weeds for me, says I 'nayther pipe nor segar. What's the use, says I, 'of smokin' when ye've not got the ghost of a chance of killin' yeself by doin' it? "'True for ye, Michob Ader, my perpetual Jew, says the Imperor; 'ye're not always wandering. Sure, 'tis danger gives the spice of our pleasures next to their bein' forbidden.
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