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It's only excitement, nervous exhaustion. She must rest and eat. Wait quietly and don't look at her." Jean moved restlessly about the room; Hilaire, gravely silent, seemed to see nothing. So the two men waited until the girl was able to control her sobs. "I am so sorry," she said presently. "I have made you uncomfortable; forgive me." "Will you take a brandy-and-soda if I give it you?"
Calder nodded his head with a faint smile, as though he understood that here was a difficulty rather cleverly surmounted. "There's tea, cocoa, and coffee," he said. "Help yourself, Durrance." "Thanks," said Durrance. "I see, but I will get Moussa to bring me a brandy-and-soda, I think," and again Calder nodded his head.
Nicky-Nan had drunk, after long abstinence and upon a fasting stomach, one brandy-and-soda. He was sober as a judge; he walked straight and bating his weak leg firmly, yet he trod on air: he looked neither to the right nor to the left, yet he saw nothing of the familiar street through which he steered. For a vision danced ahead of him.
'You all right? he questioned sharply. 'Oh, yes, she said, getting up from the cane-chair. 'Let me see you stand on one leg, he said; and then, because she hesitated: 'Go on, quick! Stand on one leg. It's a good test. So she stood on one leg, foolishly smiling. 'Here, drink this, he ordered, and she had to drink brandy-and-soda out of the glass.
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?"
If you don't mind smoke, I should like to console myself with a cigar while you draw the bond." The question was a polite formula, the atmosphere of George Sheldon's office being redolent of stale tobacco. "Smoke away," said the lawyer; "and if you can drink brandy-and-soda at this time of day, you'll find the de quoi in that cupboard. Make yourself at home." Mr.
The three men sat on the verandah while a servant brought brandy-and-soda, and Nana Sahib, with a restless perversity akin to the torturing proclivity of a Hindu was quizzing the Frenchman about his recruits. "You'll find them no good," he assured Baptiste "rebellious cusses, worthless thieves. My Moslem friend, the King of Oudh, tried them out.
She knew already, after only five weeks' experience, how bad a man he was how unscrupulous, false, and treacherous, how lazy and selfish. But, after a fashion, she loved him; after a woman's fashion, she was madly jealous of him. Another woman! And only the other night she had seen him giving brandy-and-soda to one of the music-hall ballet-girls. Another woman!
And I shall gloat in Gautier-like cadence if I can catch it over each superb muscle and each splendid development. But my best article will be on Kitty Carew. Since Laura Bell and Mabel Grey our courtesans have been but a mediocre lot." "You must not say that in the Pilgrim we should offend all our friends," Harding said, and he poured himself out a brandy-and-soda.
One often imagines things that are quite absurd. He was really very devoted to me, and seemed quite sorry when he went away. Have another brandy-and-soda? Or would you like hock-and-seltzer? I always take hock-and-seltzer myself. There is sure to be some in the next room."
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