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Updated: April 30, 2025
Somebody pushed a canteen into his hand, then lifted both hand and canteen for him so that he could drink some liquid which was not clear water but thick and brackish, evil-tasting, but which moistened his dry mouth and swollen tongue. Through the gathering dusk he could see distant splotches of red and yellow were they fires? And shells screamed somewhere.
Or if he does, he gets something that takes all the gilt off the gingerbread, and all the sweetness out of the success. They put a very evil-tasting ingredient into spirits of wine to prevent its being drunk. The cup that sin reaches to a man, though the wine moveth itself aright and is very pleasant to look at before being tasted, cheats with methylated spirits.
Some of these men wore clothes that suggested Russia, but the majority were in rags. The ladder swayed and creaked under them, and finally, at a word from Ephraim, the last-comers sat on the upper rungs, bending the frail thing with their weight into a complaining loop. Several of the newcomers had torches, and their acrid smoke turned the twice-breathed air of the place into evil-tasting fog.
They pledged each other in the yellow wine of the country, and presently Vardri set about the manufacture of what he inaccurately described as Turkish coffee. That the result of his efforts was half cold and evil-tasting mattered not to either of them. Arithelli's red hair was crowned with vine leaves that he had stripped from the grape-cluster and twisted into a Bacchante wreath.
Hal considered this point a moment; then nodded his head in token of assent. Chester did likewise. "All right," said the little man and beckoned the others to remove the gags. Their mouths free of the evil-tasting cloths, Hal and Chester breathed easier. "Now," said Chester, "perhaps you will explain what this is all about." The little man shook his head.
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