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It seemed a tragedy to want nothing and yet he wanted something, something. He knew in flashes what it was some path of hope to lead him toward what he thought was an imminent and ominous old age. After cocktails and luncheon at the University Club Anthony felt better.
Charles spoke the most execrably picturesque English, served with a punctiliousness that savoured almost of the overbearing, and boasted that he had acquired the art of making American cocktails in the Waldorf during a five weeks' residence in the United States. It was a lazy morning. Brock was happy.
He never speaks to anyone but his wife. And she's just the same. She was Faith Loveman, you know. And they've been married two years and are still honeymoon lovers! Ah, what a fate!" Daisy sighed, a sweet little-girly sigh, and blushed like a slice of cold boiled ham. But this Who's Whosing was interrupted by a footman with a tray of cocktails.
The apathetic waiter in the soiled linen jacket he addressed as "comrade." Janet protested when he ordered cocktails. "You must learn to live, to relax, to enjoy yourself," he declared. But a horror of liquor held her firm in her refusal. Rolfe drank his, and while they awaited the beefsteak she was silent, the prey of certain misgivings that suddenly assailed her.
There was a darky who answered to the name of Jackson who could not only crisp trout to a turn, but who could compound cocktails, rub down muscular backs shivering from morning plunges in the lake, make beds, clean guns, wait on the table, and in an emergency row a canoe. And there was Monteith!
Out it flashed, and there was no tremor in the long brown hand that held it in position. Bang! Bang! Bang! went the gun, three shots in quick succession, and then three more. "Six pushes, six cocktails!" he announced, triumphantly. The button had been driven into the wall, and several holes hovered close upon its wreck.
Jackpots were the rule before the drums of the infantry hammered out first call for tattoo, and in the absorbing nature of his occupation he never thought of Nevins' charge except as something to be attended to later, and not until guard-mount of another day, when his head was muddled with the potations of an all-night session and the befogging cocktails of the morning, did Mr.
Since I cannot profit by your hospitality, you must do me the favor of accepting mine as long as the launch stays by the vessel. "Then we went back to the smoking-room. He himself mixed the cocktails. He talked to me. We discovered that we had mutual acquaintances. Never shall I forget that face, that ironic and distant look, that sad and melodious voice. Ah!
His eyes, roving along the wall, fell upon the electric call button. Stretching a sinewy arm to its full length he made dumb show of pressing it, as he said, "One push, one cocktail; two pushes, two cocktails!" Then he shook his head despairingly. "Too far, can't reach it," he muttered. But his face brightened as his hand accidentally touched his revolver.
The disk of the electrical apparatus was divided off into many sections, calling respectively for saddle-horses, symphony concerts, ocean steamships, bath-towels, stenographers; cocktails of all sorts, and some sorts of which I had never before heard, and all of which I resolved to try in discreet sequence; manicures, chiropodists, astrologers, prophets, clergymen of all denominations, plots for novelists indeed, anything that any person in any station of life might chance to desire could be got for the ringing.
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