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It was only now and again as now that she, driven by some sudden stress, allowed her mind backwards to wander bruising itself in those dark passages. The cab stopped. She with a start came to the present; gulped a sob; was herself. Mrs. Chater said: "Run in quickly and mix me a brandy-and-soda." Excursions In Vulgarity.
He approached him, meaning to put a hand on his shoulder, but dared not do so. Inarticulate sounds escaped from his throat, and then at last he burst out: "Stop that, stop that! I canna stand it. Here, I'll give ye a cheque for a hundred. I'll write it now." When Mr Blackhurst had departed he rang for a brandy-and-soda, and then, after an interval, returned to the drawing-room.
At the utmost he would, perhaps, toss off a brandy-and-soda, give a tremendous sigh, and ejaculate, "Ah! poor, dear little Bluebell!" and then reflect that he would rather like to meet her again, when there would be no question of marrying the only thing he was unprepared to do for her.
"I should say the chance was hardly worth counting on," answered Leslie, as he withdrew to soothe himself with a brandy-and-soda. Millicent sat still in her chair, with her hands clenched hard on the arms of it, staring straight before her. It was perhaps hardly wise of Geoffrey Thurston to suddenly promote English Jim from the position of camp cook to that of amanuensis.
My evil genius prompted me to ask for brandy-and-soda, which was the last thing I should have done, and Blackey said, "Us blokes can't go for sixpenny drinks. Let me 'ave a drappie levinor." The gipsy word for ale was quietly dropped in, and I ordered the right stuff as if nothing unusual had been said. Then it flashed on me.
Von Ritz had long since drifted into the smoking-room where the men were christening the voyage with brandy-and-soda and dropping into tentative groups, regardful of future poker games. Pagratide, at Cara's elbow, was silent, respecting her silence. When at last the two had the deck to themselves and Manhattan had become a shadowy and ragged monotone, she turned and smiled.
Chater revealed this secret of her girlhood in a voice which implied that most young women go through the ceremony with their eyes tightly closed, mixed a second brandy-and-soda for her shattered nerves, swallowed it with the air of one draining a poison flask by way of happy release from martyrdom, banged down the glass, and, before her amazed husband could open his lips, hammered in the attack from a third quarter.
She 'elps herself and the other lady to a brandy-and-soda, and says she, just as she let the cork fly, 'Yes, she says, 'I think you've got it. I'd 'ave give a guinea at that minute," said Hinge, "to know what they'd got, but I never thought I should till Mr. Brunow gets up and says, just at that minute, 'Let's see exactly where we stand, 'e says. 'Very well, says Sacovitch; 'it's like this.
Now see that perfect comedian, Arthur Roberts, superior to Irving because he is working with living material; how trim and saucy he is! and how he evokes the soul, the brandy-and-soda soul, of the young men, delightful and elegant in black and white, who are so vociferously cheering him, "Will you stand me a cab-fare, ducky, I am feeling so awfully queer?"
Waiter, a brandy-and-soda for this lady /six/ of brandy, if you please; she's very delicate and wants support." The waiter grinned and brought the drink and the man Johnnie turned round as though to pay him, but really he went without doing so. George watched him go, and then looked again at the lady, whose appearance seemed to fascinate him.
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