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"How long since you've had a drink, Dick?" "Nine weeks!" said Wherry, his boyish face kindling suddenly with pride. "And your eyes and skin are clear and you're lean and hard as a race horse. But what a fight! What a fight!" Carl slipped his arm suddenly about the other's broad shoulders. "Come on, Dick," he urged gently. "It's discipline and endurance to-night.
A day thus spent at the Carracol Attarine gives a fine insight into the blessings of British occupation. Most of the cases that I heard turned on the adulteration and falsification of liquors. Egypt has had no licensing laws; and no effort to apply elementary principles of fair dealing to the drink trade had apparently been made until initiated under military law for the protection of the troops.
Chump would cry, when she saw him wink after sipping; "you, Pole! what do they say of ye, ye deer!" and she returned the wink, the ladies looking on. Not to drink a proper quantum of Port, when Port was on the table, was, in Mrs. Chump's eyes, mean for a man. Even Chump, she would say, was master of his bottle, and thought nothing of it.
"Perhaps so," replied Milburn, with intensity. "They say what is one man's drink is another man's poison. You will accept that hat on the head of your son-in-law, or no more drink out of the Custis property!" Resolution of character and executive power had been trifled away by Judge Custis.
They lived to eat and drink, and wear robes of purple, and ride in chariots of silver, and receive greetings in the market-place, and be attended by an army of sycophants, flatterers, and slaves. What was elevated and what was pure were laughed at as unreal, as dreamy, as transcendental.
The things were found three or four miles off a bit of a track that led to Wagga; and there was a pine of a year and a half old growing in the ashes. But we'll pass that story. I want you to listen to another." "Some other time, Alf. I'll make you a drink of tea, and" "When I was young," continued Alf doggedly, "I was very intimate with an American, a man of high principle and fine education.
At one time, when half intoxicated at a banquet, he ordered twenty of his prisoners to be brought in, and then, with his brandy before him, which was his favorite drink, and which he often drank to excess, he caused them to be led, one after another, to the block, that he might cut off their heads himself.
Sampson, probably, thought I was only a little worse for drink, and but for the way I rubbed Wright he would not have tolerated me at all. "What's this news? You needn't be afraid of my feelings," said Wright. "Ain't so sure of that," I drawled. "It concerns the lady you're sweet on, an' the ranger you ain't sweet on." Sampson jumped up. "Russ, had Diane gone out to meet Steele?" he asked angrily.
‘“This is hell broth!” he exclaimed. “I renounce it for ever!” And he threw it out into the middle of the table. ‘“Fill again!” said I, handing him the bottle—“and let us drink to your renunciation.” ‘“It’s rank poison,” said he, grasping the bottle by the neck, “and I forswear it!
The sun seems to scorch into your very brain, and you are suffocated by dust. Drink as much as you will, you are always tormented by thirst. It is a level plain, for the most part treeless, and with nothing to break the view but the mud villages, which are the same colour as the soil. Bah! we loathed them.
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