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After my bath I have the appetite of a tiger. Good! I seize the boat by one hand and I call out, 'Charpentier, pass me a small ham. Three motions in one time and I have finished it to the bone. 'Charpentier, pass me the brandy-flask. Three swallows and it is empty." So the description would continue dazzling, Homeric. "It is the hour for the regatta noon the sun just overhead.
He held out a three-inch blade in a hand which shook like a child's. "I tried to save him, but I couldn't. The man escaped, though I think I hit him." The Colonel knelt down by Lois' side, and drawing out his brandy-flask tried to force a few drops between the purple lips. "We were expecting him every minute," he said, "but we couldn't wait. The danger was too pressing. Here, man it's all right.
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.
"I am not sure that even Mr. M'Gabbery would admire the tents so much if he had not some Christian comforts along with him." "His brandy-flask and dressing-case, for instance," said George. "Yes; and his mattress and blankets," said Caroline. "His potted meat and preserved soup." "And especially his pot to boil his potatoes in." "That was Mr. Cruse," said Mr. M'Gabbery, quite angrily.
At the bishop's question about who would go down the mountain for news, each of Hund's guards begged to be the man. The swiftest of foot was chosen; and off he went, not without a barley-cake and brandy-flask, at a pace which promised speedy tidings.
Our Grizzie's scons are good, with plenty of butter." His lordship had in the meantime taken another pull at the brandy-flask, and was growing more and more polite. "The man would be hard to please," he said, "who would not be enticed to eat by such a display of good victuals. Tea for me, before everything! How am I to pretend to swallow the stuff?" he murmured, rather than muttered, to himself.
"No, not dead," he exclaimed; "but he's sinking fast, and there's only one remedy. You can leave him to die, or you can save him, Mrs. Chantrey. There is no one else to nurse him, and every moment is precious to me. Here's a brandy-flask. Give him some at once; force a few drops through his teeth, and watch the effect it has upon him. As he swallows it give him a little more every few minutes.
Jemmy, another flask of Nantz." And the boy for he who addressed the most brilliant company of wits in Europe was little more emptied the contents of the brandy-flask into a silver flagon, and quaffed it gayly to the health of the company assembled. 'Twas the third he had taken during the sitting.
Our sexton has got a name among his neighbours for his capital double-leather brogues, warranted to carry you dry-shod through a river; and, warmed by my brandy-flask and bonhomie, considering me moreover little likely to set up a rival shop, cunningly communicates his secret: he puts parchment between the leathers Parchment, my good man? where can you get your parchment hereabouts?
The masterpieces were some excellent works of Luke Kranach, who seemed the only German painter worth looking at when there were any Dutch or Italian pictures near, but the travellers forgot the name and nature of the Kranachs, and remembered afterwards only the shattered fragments of the brandy-flask, just how they looked on the floor, and the fumes, how they smelt, that rose from the ruin.
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