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Updated: September 3, 2025
Now, I'm afraid you'll say that Mr Barclay Drinkwater was right in calling me Polonius, and saying I was as prosy as a college don; but if I don't tell you what brought all the trouble about, how are you to understand what followed? Old men have their own ways; and though I'm not very old, I've got mine, and if I don't tell my story my way, I'm done.
Of course things didn't shape out as I'd planned Moran's alibi for instance, or that hobo, Drinkwater. "I know to you it will only appear sheer nonsense on my part ever to start in attempting to justify my my abolishment of him. But this what I am going to tell you is the absolute truth of what happened.
Drinkwater has thus the satisfaction of knowing that his neighbour, Lord Inchiquin, who has commenced improvements on his own account, has obtained 8,000l. at 1 per cent., while he pays 5 upon the large sum employed on the Clare Slob Reclamation; a state of things greatly enjoyed here as turning the laugh against "the Saxon." Being sceptical about the "slob," I went to see it.
When they came from their gorging to the garden, they picked flowers, smelled the many kinds of blossoms, and then the sailors lighted their cigars. This pair were Steve Drinkwater, a Dutchman; and Alex Simoneau, a French-Canadian of Attleboro, Massachusetts. "Where's the El Dorado?" I asked of the captain. Again he looked at me, suspiciously.
Walter De La Mare the poet of shadow Hawthorne's tales his persistence his reflective mood his descriptive style his Shakespeare characters his sketches from life. D. H. Lawrence his lack of discipline his subjectivity absence of reserve a master of colour his glaring excesses. John Drinkwater the west of England his healthy spirit. W. H. Davies the tramp poet.
Drinkwater was obliged to throw overboard a load of cordwood to make room for the rescued passengers and crew and their possessions. For this he was of course remunerated by the Company. The Hazen family proved a great addition to the limited society of Portland Point.
This Thomas Drinkwater was a taverner of London, and the document in question sets forth how he had granted the lease of the Bear to one James Beauflur, who agrees to purchase all his wines from the inappropriately named Drinkwater, who, on his part, was to furnish his tenant with such necessaries as silver mugs, wooden hanaps, curtains, cloths and other articles.
Captain Drinkwater informs us, that during the siege of Gibraltar, the English, being half famished, were most violently enraged against the Jews, who withheld their stores of provision, and made money of the public distress a crime never committed except by Jews: at length the fleet relieved the besieged, and as soon as the provisions were given out, the English soldiers and sailors, to revenge themselves upon the Jews, burst open their stores, and actually roasted a pig at a fire made of cinnamon.
He started up in his peculiar energetic manner, notwithstanding Lady Nelson's attempts to quiet him, and stretching out his unwounded arm, 'Drinkwater, said he, 'I would give this other arm to be with Duncan at this moment; so unconquerable was the spirit of the man, and so intense his eagerness to give every instant of his life to the service." Until the 4th of December his agony continued.
There is, preserved among the archives of the city of London a tavern lease of that date which belongs without doubt to the history of this hostelry, for it refers to the inn which Thomas Drinkwater had "recently built at the head of London Bridge."
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