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Personal, we're out letters an' missifs from home, an' I've beheld individooals who gets that heated about it you don't dar' ask 'em to libate ontil they cools, but as'a common thing, we-all don't suffer no practical set-backs. We're shy letters, but sech wounds is healed by time an' other mails to come.
It is designed rather to win the esteem of bar-tenders, loosen the tongues of suspects, libate the thirsty stool-pigeon, and prime other accepted sources of information. But beware! Exceeding care in filling out the account of such expenditures at the month's end. Carelessness leads a hunted life on the Canal Zone.
"If you will give me the pleasure of taking supper with me at some good place " I suggested, as they pursued me into the street. "We can't talk this over while we're dry," the Colonel objected. "That is a human impossibility. Let us libate, suhs, in order to tackle our provender in proper spirit." "And no lemonade goes this time, either," Bill declared.
"A son of Israel has no gods whom he can libate," he said, playing with the water to hide his amazement, now greater than before. What more did the Egyptian know about him? Had she been told of his relations with Simonides? And there was the treaty with Ilderim had she knowledge of that also? He was struck with mistrust. Somebody had betrayed his secrets, and they were serious.
Their Dismay was genuine when he timidly informed the Irrigation Committee that he desired Vichy. They told him he was a Celluloid Sport and that his refusal to Libate was little short of an Affront. Escaping from the Comanches, he hurried to the Old Homestead to sit by the Grate Fire and tease the Cat.
"When the game is over, they refer to their tablets and cast up their accounts; then they libate the gods and put a crown upon the happy winner. We have had a game it has lasted through many days and nights. Why, now that it is at an end, shall not we see to which the chaplet belongs?" Yet very watchful, Ben-Hur answered, lightly, "A man may not balk a woman bent on having her way."
But I do not intend to be a spoil sport, and I shall be glad to have you show me whatever you think worth while in the city, so far as I have the leisure." "That's it, that's it, suh." The Colonel appeared delighted. "Let us libate to the gods of chance, gentlemen; and then take a stroll." "My bag will be safe here?" I prompted, as we were about to file out. "Absolutely, suh.
'I can see he gambles by him pickin' up the salt cellar between his thumb an' middle finger with the forefinger over the top like it's a stack of chips, one evenin' when he stays to supper an' I asks him to "pass the salt." Then ag'in, he don't drink; he tells me so himse'f when I invites him to libate.
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