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The landlady's glasses were little, thin, blown-glass tumblers, and those which had been borrowed from the public-house were great, dropsical, bloated articles, each supported on a huge gouty leg.
A cup may be very bitter, salt with the brine of tears and hot with the fire of vitriol, and yet, if all the ingredients in that cup are known to him who drinks it, grief has not reached its superlative. Socrates' duty was plain to him. Hemlock was in the cup, and he knew it. But the liquor with which God fills the tumblers of His people is brewed from a thousand elements.
"This was not exactly my meaning," said the boy, dryly. "'A fico for your meaning, as the Swan says. Hallo, you sir! Bully Host, clear the table fresh tumblers hot water sugar lemon and The bottle's out! Smoke, sir?" and Mr. Peacock offered me a cigar.
Nothing else enables them to stand these fiery hot summers after their polar winters!" Well, I didn't feel exactly cool, with thirty or forty tumblers of boiling hot tea, dashed with Cognac, in my veins, but what was the use of remonstrating?
After the dense atmosphere of the clothes-market, it is a relief to emerge upon the Boulevart du Temple the noisy, feverish, crowded Boulevart du Temple, with its half dozen theatres, its glare of gas, its cake-sellers, bill-sellers, lemonade-sellers, cabs, cafés, gendarmes, tumblers, grisettes, and pleasure-seekers of both sexes.
Monsieur kneeled, placed his ear against it, and began slowly to turn the knob, listening intently for the little metal hammers, or tumblers, of the lock to fall clicking into place. "I never supposed he knew enough for that," Tommy whispered. "It's a regular crook's way!"
"Did he really give them to me?" she asked papa, quite gasping at the idea of such generosity. Then the ice-water boy came along, with his frame of tumblers; she had a delicious cold drink, and told papa "she did think the railroad was so kind," which made him laugh; and, as seeing him laugh brightened her spirits, they journeyed on very cheerfully.
Suddenly the talk came to an end, the three heads separated and the three chairs were pushed back, grating harshly. Levi rose, went to the closet and brought thence a bottle of Hiram's apple brandy, as coolly as though it belonged to himself. He set three tumblers and a crock of water upon the table and each helped himself liberally.
"Nice day, ain't it? . . . Hum. . . . About five minutes more." The workman strode down the bank. "Say," he demanded, "have you seen anything of a plan?" "Eh? . . . Hum. . . . Two plates and two spoons . . . and two tumblers. . . ." "Hey! Wake up! Have you seen anything of a plan, I ask you?" "Eh? . . . A plan? . . . No, I guess not. . . . No, I ain't. . . . What is it?" "What IS it?
Here, boy, fetch up that ere demi John of Madeira, and for aught I know, the young officer might like a drop o' long cork; bring us some tumblers, and one o' they claret bottles out o' the starboard after locker." The boy obeyed and the articles quickly appeared.
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