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Updated: April 30, 2025
After a brief inspection of the array of bottles he called through the little passage that led to the kitchen: "Jacques! Here then! Got any lemons?" "Des citrons? Oui, monsieur, j'en ai." "Squeeze a couple and bring me the juice." "Entendu, monsieur." With a thoughtful face Holliday measured equal parts of gin and Cointreau into the shaker.
"Couldn't we give him a beautiful brocaded dressing-gown and a Swiss watch, thin as a wafer, and some handkerchiefs cobwebby fine, and a dozen bottles of Cointreau, and then get the other things as we think of them?" "Are we rich enough to do that?" Sheila asked, her eyes sparkling with excitement. "Rich enough to buy anything we want, Sheila," Nancy cried.
We took a bottle of Cointreau and a sweet cake as a gift to any battalion mess we might find in the ramparts, and were sorry for ourselves when we failed to find it, nor, for a long time, any living soul. Our own footsteps were the noisiest sounds as we stumbled over the broken stones.
A compound of grounds and dish-water, described by the optimistic Mess Corporal as coffee, next made its appearance, mitigated by a bottle of Cointreau and a box of Panatellas; and the Mess turned itself to more intellectual refreshment. A heavy and long-overdue mail had been found waiting at St. Grégoire. Letters had been devoured long ago.
Michael said to get a smoking set, but I don't know what a smoking set is. Hitty said some hand knit woolen stockings, but I am afraid he would be scratched by them. Gaspard said a big bottle of Cointreau, but I do not know what that is either."
"Fascination ... understand, but effort of will ... break the spell. Europe ... birthplace of culture ... reflection ... give him a proper perspective ... chance to do things...." Even when the evening lengthened and he became more lucid under the stimulus of cornwhisky and cointreau he could not shake them.
There were two kitchen chairs, with a deal table on which we put our cake and Cointreau, and here, through half a night, my friend and I sat watching and listening to that weird scene upon which the old moon looked down; and, as two men will at such a time, we talked over all the problems of life and death and the meaning of man's heritage.
There they entertained him with two bottles of cointreau and a stone demijohn of cornwhisky. "Touched ... filial affection ... even drank the cointreau fiddling stuff, no wonder it was still available in the drought ... better son a man never had.... "Girl's all right.
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