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For when he entered the hall, a loud roar of laughter greeted his appearance, and the half-drunk guests, who were swilling the wine as if they had tuns to fill, and not stomachs, swore that he must pledge each of them separately, in a lusty draught.
"Can't you see Matt?" he cried hilariously. "Having supper with a massive actress!" He slapped his thighs delightedly. "Matt swilling ginger ale and saying, 'You're 's' dev'lish fine womansh. ... No, don't start scrapping, Matt; I've just put on a clean collar ... and it's got to last.... All right pax, then." "Well," said Matthews, when peace was restored. "What's everyone else going to do?
In the town, of course, they drank beer out of huge mugs, but Karl Johan considered that that was simply swilling. The girls refused to drink, but did it after all, and were delighted. "They're always like that," said Mons, "when you offer them something really good." They became flushed with the excitement of the occurrence, and thought they were drunk.
Said he hoped we'd win." "We! Why, is he backing out, then?" "Well, we've waited for him half an hour, and there's no sign of him yet look's like it." "What is up with him, I wonder?" said Poulett. "Seemed rather mysterious this morning rather stand-offish to my idea. Perhaps, though, he's only guzzling buns or swilling coffee somewhere. Let's see."
"I tell you what it is," he went on. "You boys get mighty close to the wind swilling prohibited liquor. It's against the spirit of the law anyway." But the agent's good humor warmed again under the officer's admission of his difficulties. He was an irrepressible fellow when opportunity offered. Usually he lived in a condition of utter boredom.
As Lord James took the glass, Griffith interposed. "Hold on. We'll keep that for later. I've something else now." "More dope!" growled Blake. "No, good stuff to offset the effects of the poison you've been swilling since morning. Next course is bromide of potassium." "Take your medicine, bo!" chimed in Lord James. "Ugh!" groaned Blake. "Dish it out, then. Only don't forget.
I've chucked all that guzzling an swilling business. It's no good. I never touch a drop of liquor, nor a morsel of fleshmeat. Nor smoke, either. When you come to think of it, smoking's a disgusting habit." Rachel said, pleasantly, "But you were smoking last week, surely?" "Ah! But it's since then. I don't mind telling you. In fact, I meant to tell you, anyhow. I've turned over a new leaf.
What with the continual swilling and scrubbing and swabbing that the decks underwent every morning, it ought to have been an impossibility for any dust or debris to exist; but, there it was, to prove the contrary the rain "exposing the weakness of the land," and making a clean sweep of everything that was dirty which lay about in the odd corners fore and aft the ship.
But Spaniards and Germans came as mere greedy and besotten and savage mercenaries: the scum of their countries, careless of Italian sights and deeds, thinking only of torturing for hidden treasure, or swilling southern wines; and they returned to Spain and to Germany, to persecutions of Moriscos and plundering of abbeys, as savage and as dull as they had arrived.
They do it all, here, from going barefoot, eating nuts, swilling olive oil, rolling down hill, adoring the Limitless Whichness, and all the works. It is now," he concluded, looking at his watch, "about ten o'clock. We will finish the evening by dropping in on the Fuzzies." Together they boarded a street car, which shortly deposited them at an uptown corner.
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