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PS I mean Obed Coleby, for I ought not to call myself Dexter any more, and I would have scratched it out, only you always said it was better not to scratch out mistakes because they made the paper look so untidy. I like you very much, and Mrs Millett too, but I can't take her fiz physick to-night. Is physick spelt with a k?
"What!" exclaimed Hogan, or rather roared again, as he fastened his blazing eyes on Kate "what, you yalla mullotty, do you dar to refuse?" "Ay, do dar to refuse! an' I'd see you fizzin' on the devil's fryin'-pan, where you'll fiz yet, afore I'd dhrink it. Come, come," she replied, her eye blazing now as fiercely as his own, "keep quiet, I bid you keep calm; you ought to know me now, I think."
'Two on 'em! exclaimed Captain Bouncey. 'Three! shouted Sir Harry. 'We'll have a regular set-to, observed Miss Howard, who was fond of champagne. 'New Year's Day, replied Bouncey, 'and ought to be properly observed. Presently, Fiz z, pop, bang!
She went in her benevolence, and, taking a blue and white soda-powder, mingled the same in water, and encouraged me to drink the result. It might be a specific for seasickness, but it was not for home-sickness. The fiz was a mockery, and the saline refrigerant struck a colder chill to my despondent heart.
There was a faint noise, a mouse? no, it was too prolonged; nor did it sound like the fiz of Champagne; a great iron door was turning on its hinges; a man with a lantern was entering; another followed, and another. They seated themselves. In a few moments, appearing one by one and at intervals, some thirty people were in the cellar. Were they all to share in the proceeds of the diamond?
Fiz z, pop, bang! went the bottles; and, as the hissing beverage foamed over the bottle-necks, glasses were sought and held out to catch the creaming contents. 'H-o-o-ray! exclaimed the company in irregular order, as they drank off theirs. 'We'll drink Mr. Watchorn and the Nonsuch hounds! exclaimed Bob Spangles, as Watchorn, having drained off his tumbler, replaced it on the sideboard.
And, to prove the truth of his assertion, off went half a dozen of his bottles fizzing away together; some, however, remained, and the old Frenchman insisted on himself cutting the lashings of the corks to give full effect of the pop. He would then put a far from clean thumb over the mouth to prevent the liquid from escaping; but still the froth would fiz and fume round it.
Now and then a pair of deer, with long tails and manes, hitched to a spider-web of a wagon, would drive up to the front entrance and a gentleman wearing a watch-chain, a solitaire diamond ring, a polished silk hat, and a white overcoat with big pearl buttons, would order "a pint of fiz" and talk in an undertone to Muffles while he drank it.
"Now, Pearl, my darling, shout to them in Coromantee shout;" and forthwith the black quartermaster sung out, "Coromantee Sheik Cocoloo, kockemony populorum fiz;" which, as I afterwards learned, being interpreted, is, "Behold the Sultan Cocoloo, the great ostrich, with a feather in his tail like a palm branch; fight for him, you sons of female dogs."
Dormeh beeahn mon fiz nublieh pahleh Bondihu. This is their dismissal at night, invoking the blessing of their God. They recite prayers both sitting and walking. Having seen my Tasbih these old people become curious concerning the Faith. Certainly they are idolators. I have seen the images by the roadside which they worship.
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