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Moses started, and cast a glance of awe at the tumbler. "My word," he cried "my word, mother! What's the blessed little symbol like? Not a pony fresh from Jerusalem for your believing boy!" "You must wait a moment. It is not clear," replied Eureka, slowly and dreamily, fixing her heavy eyes on the brandy-and-soda. "It's all cloudy." "Been imbibing, mother?
'Oh yes, said Dick, 'very. 'I knew you would be, she replied; 'I told him how you loved him. 'Help yourself, said the Admiral, 'help yourself; and let us drink to a new existence. 'To a new existence, repeated Dick; and he raised the tumbler to his lips, but set it down untasted. He had had enough of novelties for one day.
Beside him was an empty tumbler, decorated with a broken straw and a spray of withered mint. The summer air fanned through the closed blinds of the darkened room, and played with the silvery locks that straggled over the white pillow; the paper rose and fell with a crinkling noise, keeping time to the rhythm of the exhaust. Beyond this there was no movement. The Hon. I. B. Kerfoot was asleep.
As Ned had eaten nothing on the day of his arrival since early morning, the first care of his friends was to cook some food for him; and Larry took special care to brew for him, as soon as possible, a stiff tumbler of hot brandy and water, which, as he was wet and weary, was particularly acceptable.
Bostock fetched a lanthorn, lit it in a surly way, and then went first, closely followed by Carey, who just caught sight of their captor pouring himself out a tumbler of rum from a half-emptied bottle; but there was no water near. "Bob," panted the boy, as they reached the deck, "are we going to put up with this?" "Dunno yet, my lad," growled the old sailor. "Not for long, I hope.
Nekhludoff was shown into the cabinet. The General, a bloated, potato-nosed man, with a sanguine disposition, large bumps on his forehead, bald head, and puffs under his eyes, sat wrapped in a Tartar silk dressing-gown smoking a cigarette and sipping his tea out of a tumbler in a silver holder. "How do you do, sir?
"Listen to me," the Rajah leant forward and tapped him on the knee. "I must have that girl. Ever since I saw her at the durbar at Jalpaiguri I have wanted her." "Your Highness knows that it is difficult to get hold of an Englishwoman in India." "I know. But I do not care. I must have her. I will have her." He filled a tumbler with liqueur and sipped it. "I have sent for you to find a way.
He lighted the pipe, but gave no sign of awareness of the presence of his waiting retainers until the tumbler of gin and milk had been brought and drunk. "Well?" he demanded abruptly, and in the pause, while twenty faces wreathed in smiles and twenty pairs of dark eyes glowed luminously with well-wishing pleasure, he wiped the lingering drops of gin and milk from his hairy lips.
I saw two hands put out to take the glass; a brown hand and a white his hand, and the hand of Monsieur Maurice. I saw yes, before Heaven! as I live to remember and record it, I saw the brown hand grasp the tumbler and dash it to the ground! "Pshaw!" said Monsieur Maurice, brushing the Seltzer-water impatiently from his sleeve, "how came you to upset it?"
Here, Jane, my dear, calling down the stairs, 'bring up that there hot tumbler for my master as was a-mixing when I come in. That's right, sir, to Martin. 'Go at it as if you meant it, sir. Be very tender, sir, if you please. You can't make it too strong, sir! The letter being duly signed, sealed, and delivered, was handed to Mark Tapley, for immediate conveyance if possible.
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