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"You have been hit in the body, Peter, but the doctor means to get you round in no time. Yes," he continued, seeing Peter's eyes fixed on his bandaged shoulder, "I have had a tap too, but there's no great harm done. There, drink some brandy-and-water, and go off to sleep again, if you can."
I felt the greatest contempt for Franklin just then, while I looked at Captain Anthony sitting there with a glass of weak brandy-and-water at his elbow and reading in the cabin of his ship, on a quiet night the quietest, perhaps the finest, of a prosperous passage. And if you wonder why I didn't leave off my ugly spying I will tell you how it was.
He had some brandy-and-water to enable him to sustain himself. His testimony bore on one man only, at whom he cast a vindictive look; but I think he told the truth as far as he knew and remembered it.
After this the stranger sat for some time, drinking cold brandy-and-water, and staring moodily at the fire, without making the faintest attempt at conversation, while Mr. Whitelaw finished his tea, and the table was cleared; and even after this, when the farmer had taken his place upon the opposite side of the hearth, and seemed to be waiting for his guest to begin business.
Whitelaw, he should prefer a glass of brandy-and-water; whereupon the brandy-bottle was produced from a cupboard by the fire-place, of which Stephen himself kept the key, judiciously on his guard against a possible taste for ardent spirits developing itself in Mrs. Tadman.
Mellot said he would go crazed some day; and be hanged if I don't think he is so now." Another five minutes, and Elsley rang the bell violently for hot brandy-and-water. Mrs. Owen came back looking a little startled, a letter in her hand. "The gentleman had drunk the liquor off at one draught, and ran out of the house like a wild man.
The man from Broadstairs with an eye to salvage took charge of the human wreck, and towed him to the nearest public-house. "A chop and a glass of brandy-and-water," said this good Samaritan of the nineteenth century. "That's what you want. I'm peckish myself, and I'll keep you company."
"Would you like to have a little brandy-and-water? I've got same in my room of course the rest don't know anything about it, father's teetotal mad but I keep a little for when I'm tired and down in the mouth; and when I run out I get some from Joseph's room. Of course, he isn't a total abstainer.
For the first time in his experience of his brother, the pecuniary consideration was not the uppermost consideration in Geoffrey's mind. They went back into the drawing-room. "What will you have to drink?" said Geoffrey. "Nothing." "You won't keep me company over a drop of brandy-and-water?" "No. You have had enough brandy-and-water."
"A hot brandy-and-water is not to be despised." "Ah," said the Russian, "stop a moment; better chuck the water away and let something more palatable take its place." He went into his room and returned immediately with a bottle of sherry and two bottles of champagne. "I will, with your permission, brew in this kettle a bowl in Russian fashion.
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