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A total abstainer from intoxicating drinks, he was persistently described as a drunkard, drunken upon the field of battle. One of the most loyal and self-forgetting of subordinates, he was treated as if a persistent intriguer for command. A brave and competent soldier, he was believed to be worthless and untrustworthy.
He always said to himself but never so much as a word of it to any one else that if his wife hadn't driven him to distraction with her nagging he would have avoided the happy though disastrous pitfalls into which he stumbled in his desperate efforts to find appreciation. He would have remained an honourable, faithful spouse to her, and an abstainer as such things go.
You a total abstainer, Mr Frank, and me a-coming arter you. I think I sees you a-telling James to put the water on the table, and then you says, `The water stands with you, Colonel Coleman." "Don't talk so absurdly," said Frank, amused in spite of himself at the idea of the water-party, with himself for the host.
The chill dawn came at last and with a fine elation which ever follows a dismal night in war; an elation which bounds in the bosom as soon as day has knocked the shackles from a trembling mind. Although Coleman had slept but a short time he was now as fresh as a total abstainer coming from the bath.
The earl's breast howled derision of his pursuit when he drew up at the; sign of the Royal Sovereign, in the dusky hour, and handed himself desperately to Mrs. Rundles' mercy. He could not wait for a dinner, so his eating was cold meat. Warned by a sip, that his drinking, if he drank, was to be an excursion in chemical acids, the virtues of an abstainer served for his consolation.
"Yes, I'll go," said a bright young fisherman with a frame like Hercules and a face almost as soft as that of a girl. "That's right! Come down." "And I've brought two o' my boys," said a burly man with a cast-iron sort of face, who had been himself an abstainer for many years.
I'm heartily glad of it; that is, supposing you're the same lad as when you sailed with me before. I mean, as stanch an abstainer." "Ay, that he is," said Frank warmly. "And you too, Mr Oldfield?" "Well, I am at present," replied the other, colouring; "and I hope to continue so." "Ah, then, I suppose you've never signed the pledge." "No; more's the pity."
She had no wish that he should become a total abstainer; indeed she was, at this very time, giving him, by the doctor's orders, as much porter and wine as he could bear; but she thought that Mary's total abstinence might act as a check upon him to keep him within the bounds of strict moderation.
'Byron used to drink soda-water at dinners when he was the rage in London society, he said. 'It was chic, and Byron was like Sara Bernhardt he would have done anything to get himself talked about. 'I should have thought the fame he won by "Childe Harold" would have satisfied him, without any outside notoriety as a total abstainer, said Mr. Jardine.
Gammon, who made up a trio at the supper table, put on his best behaviour. It might perhaps have been suspected that he had quenched his thirst more often than was needful on a day of showers and falling temperature, but at supper he drank only two glasses of mild ale, and casually remarked, as he poured out the second, that he had serious thoughts of becoming a total abstainer.
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