brandy-and-soda-water

Updated: May 4, 2025

So having placed the brandy-and-soda-water before him she left him to his own reflections. Apparently they were not very pleasant ones. He walked round the room, which was reeking of patchouli or some such compound, well mixed with the odour of stale cigar smoke, looking absently at the gee-gar ornaments.

Henry Rider Haggard - Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life