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The good company, except perhaps one or two of the young women whose looks expressed some desire for better acquaintance, gave themselves no further trouble about me; but, while the seniors resumed their places near an immense bowl or rather reeking cauldron of brandy-punch, the younger arranged themselves on the floor and called loudly on Willie to strike up.
Arnold, when the boys in the Sixth Form were weak or brutal, and the blackguard Flashman, in the intervals of swigging brandy-punch with his boon companions, amused himself by toasting fags before the fire. But there was an exceptional kind of boy, upon whom the high- pitched exhortations of Dr. Arnold produced a very different effect.
What a bore that he's got a study in this passage! Don't you hear them now at supper in his den? Brandy-punch going, I'll bet. I wish the Doctor would come out and catch him. We must change our study as soon as we can." "Change or no change, I'll never fag for him again," said Tom, thumping the table. "Fa-a-a-ag!" sounded along the passage from Flashman's study.
Come, take a julep, or a brandy-punch with me." "No, Loring, I cannot." "I shall take it as an offence, if you do not." "I mean no offence, and shall be sorry, if you construe into one an act not so intended. Drink if you wish to drink, but leave me in freedom to decline tasting liquor if I choose."
Alaric began to feel uneasy, and to think that there might by possibility be something in what Neverbend had said to him. He did not like the idea of meeting a Cornish stock-jobber in a familiar way over his brandy-punch, while engaged, as he now was, on the part of Government; he felt that there might be impropriety in it, and he would have been glad to get off if he could.
Holloa! steward, whisky-toddy for four I totally despise conventionalisms Checkmate Brandy-punch for six You've thrown away all your hearts" and a hundred others, many of them demands for something from the culinary department.
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