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Now who's discharging you? I'd sooner do without my right arm." He reached in a desk drawer and pulled out a bottle of old Earth bourbon and two glasses. He carefully poured out a shot into each glass, and handed one to Jordan. "I like a man with a heart, and if you get away with it, why then you get away with it. And that's just what you've done." He sat down and started sipping his whisky.
The servants had withdrawn, and for half an hour thereafter they sat on, sipping their wine, and making conversation while Crispin drained bumper after bumper and grew every instant more boisterous, until at length his boisterousness passed into incoherence. His eyelids drooped heavily, and his chin kept ever and anon sinking forward on to his breast.
The last thing Major Mallaby-Kelby said before going off to sleep was, "Extraordinary long time since we met any civilians. Haven't seen any since July." Sept. 4: "A full mail-bag and a bottle of white wine are the best spirit revivers for war-worn fighting-men," said Major Mallaby-Kelby contentedly, gathering up his own big batch of letters from the one and sipping a glass of the other.
Then amid many protestations Lady Edith was induced to dismount. He forced her to drink, and to continue sipping from his hunting-flask, which was fortunately full of brandy; and when she said she was no longer cold, he put his arm about her, and they talked of their sensations on first seeing each other.
He vanished an instant, and when he returned a close observer might have seen that the mixture in the glass he bore had slightly changed color and increased in quantity. But the elder saw only the whizzing stream of water dart into its center, and the rosy foam rise and tremble on the glass's rim. The next instant he was holding his breath and sipping the cooling drink.
"Yes, leave me to myself," said Kate, sipping wearily; and then Grannie went off with the basin in her hand. "Has she taken it?" said some one below. "Look at that, if you plaze," said Grannie in a jubilant tone; and Kate knew that the empty basin was being shown around. Kate lay back on the pillow, listened to the tolling of the bell, and shuddered.
The young people greet each other pleasantly, and Alma proceeds to lay the table. "Now for breakfast, father. Everything waits upon a good appetite. Will you not join us, Lawrence?" Mr. Belford replies that he has been to breakfast. Mr. Denny takes a cup of coffee, and while sipping it remarks: "How many more window-frames shall you require for the new mill, Lawrence?" "Ten more, sir.
Every one awoke marvellously renovated, and while sipping the refreshing beverage out of the Baronet's old-fashioned hereditary china, began to think of departing for their several homes. But here a sudden difficulty arose.
She came of better stock. But I don't see what George Ramsey is thinking of, for my part." "Lily is very pretty and has a very good disposition," said Maria. "I think she will make him a good wife." Aunt Maria sniffed. "Now, Maria Edgham," said she, "what's the use. You know it's sour grapes he's getting. You know he wanted somebody else." "Whom?" asked Maria, innocently, sipping her chocolate.
He looked round. The people were coolly sipping wine and eating cakes, while they chatted admirably about the beauty of the great curtain, which had fallen and hidden the stage, and represented, on a ground of deep-blue sea, Europa carried by the bull across the Bosphorus, while Nereids and Tritons played around.
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