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He had just breakfasted off his usual brandy-and-soda and dry toast when I came in; and the big cigar did sentry-go across his mouth all the time he talked to me. "Come in, come in, Britten," he cried pompously, when I appeared. "You like your place, I hope you don't find the work too hard?" "That's so sir a very nice sort of place this for a delicate young man like myself."
At last the thirst thinks its conquest assured, taking the hot tea for a signal of surrender; but I pour in more, and gradually feel the tea settling within me. I am a degree less torrid, a shade more substantial. And then here comes my boy. "Master, you wantchee makee one drink brandy-and-soda. No can catchee soda this side have got water. Can do?" Ah! shall I? Shall I? No!
That healing realization came to me, bringing such a gladness as no word of mine can express nor convey. Still we ran on. "There's a policeman's lantern," panted my companion. "They'll attempt nothing, now!" I gulped down the stiff brandy-and-soda, then glanced across to where Nayland Smith lay extended in the long cane chair.
The Englishman drew certain conclusions in regard to this reply, since it permitted a waiting friend to consume three long tumblers of brandy-and-soda before it was finished. However, Mr. Sneyd kept his reflections to himself, and, when the epistle had been dispatched by a messenger, took the American's arm and led him to the "American Bar" of the hotel, a region hitherto unexplored by Mellin.
Said that she thought that Fiji after all was the best place, you know." Brabant nodded. "Just so. Well, we'll see her before another couple of months, I hope." "I hope so," said Danvers genially, as he raised his glass of brandy-and-soda and nodded "good luck" to his host.
"If you means Laryer Quest, why in course I do, and Mrs. Quest too. Ah! she's a pretty one, she is." Here the lady burst into a flood of incoherent abuse which tired her so much that she had a fourth brandy-and-soda; George mixed it for her and he mixed it strong. "Is he rich?" she asked as she put down the glass. "What! Laryer Quest?
In the midst of his talk Loveday scratched the top of his head, where the hair was rather thin, and said he, twisting round: "Forgive me-let me ring for some brandy-and-soda " Hogarth stood briskly up. "What I say, I can see, is not new to you?" said he.
While Santa Fé was talking along so slick about the way he managed his parsoning, the little man's eyes was getting bulgier and bulgier; and when it come to his taking a hand in shooting-scrapes they looked like they was going to jump out of his head. All he could say was: "Good Lord!" Then he kind of gagged, and said he'd be obliged if he could get his brandy-and-soda right off.
"Ah," said he, breaking in upon her eloquence, "I suppose that the lady friends smoke cigars. Well, clear away this mess and leave me stop, give me a brandy-and-soda first. I will wait for your mistress." The woman stopped talking and did as she was bid, for there was a look in Mr. Quest's eye which she did not quite like.
"Run for it, with two engines, yes; but it's a poor business. And we'll have to fight! Well, who knows? There's luck at sea as well as on shore. If I run, they'll catch me in ten miles; but we'll all do what we can. Now smoke and have a brandy-and-soda. You may not get another." The drink I took, but his calm I could not share.
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