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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Not a bit; but I've emptied the brandy-flask; and that's a bad job. However, it is to be remedied." I did not go to sleep again for some time, I was so anxious to see O'Brien fast asleep.
Then up he would get, and walk sulkily to the brandy-flask and have a dram, and feel better, and begin to count up his chances, and what he might yet save out of the fire; and resolve to press vigorously for the agency, which he thought Dangerfield, if he wanted a useful man, could not fail to give him; and he had hinted the matter to Lord Castlemallard, who, he thought, understood and favoured his wishes.
There is little risk of mistaking the Englishman, with or without his family, who has set out to do Switzerland. He wears a brandy-flask, a field-glass, and a haversack. Whether he has a silk or soft hat, he is certain to wear a veil tied round it.
If you will put your hand inside my coat, you will find a brandy-flask there, and I'll drink your health. Don't worry your heads about me, but think of yourselves. One of you, remember, must go and see Czerny now; I think it had better be you, captain." I said yes, I would go willingly; and added, "when the right time comes."
But can you manage the rope?" He laughed a little. "I ought to! I've been through a poolroom raid or two, over home!" "In Trieste then, a week from morrow!" She handed him her brandy-flask. "You may need it," she explained. He was on his feet by this time, struggling to pull himself together. "But you can't face that alone," he remonstrated, with a thumb-jerk toward the hall.
"She rode in on a broomstick she crept in through the keyhole. Where's the fire? Let's take her downstairs, and burn her!" Schwartz applied himself to the brandy-flask, and began to laugh again. "There never was such good company as Jack," he said, in his oiliest tones. "You can't get out to-night, Mrs. Witch. The gates are locked and they don't trust me with the key. Walk in, ma'am.
But the advantage now was on the side of Rigg, and auditors of this conversation might probably have expected that Raffles would retire with the air of a defeated dog. Not at all. He made a grimace which was habitual with him whenever he was "out" in a game; then subsided into a laugh, and drew a brandy-flask from his pocket.
What could HE do if " Here he left the sentence unfinished. "Very well, my lord," responded the laird, "I will not leave you. Cosmo shall go and look for the brandy-flask in your lordship's greatcoat." "Yes, yes, good boy! you go and look for it. You're all Cosmos, are you? Will the line never come to an end! A cursed line for me if it shouldn't be a rope-line!
Don't get to lying about in easy-chairs and reading novels; don't get to singing duets and philandering about with the girls. May I never, if I'd not rather find a brandy-flask in your pocket than Tennyson's poems!
The sword-stick and the brandy-flask, though in themselves only the tools of morbid conspirators, became the expressions of his own more healthy romance. The sword-stick became almost the sword of chivalry, and the brandy the wine of the stirrup-cup. For even the most dehumanised modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.
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