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Updated: June 2, 2025
Well, it was all in the day's work And here was his sweet, devoted wife, fluttering across the hall, as cool as a rose, in her pink and white. And she had packed his things, in case they wanted to spend the night at Sea Light, and the "cats" had gone off for library books, and he must have some ginger-ale, before it was time to go for Betty and Penny. The day was perfection.
"No," agreed Ginger. "You never know when folks is oppressed. An' anyway, wot's one afternoon away from school to make such a fuss about?" "Seems to me from wot father said," went on William gloomily, "you'll have to wait a jolly long time for that drink of ginger-ale." An expression of dejection came over Ginger's face. "An' you wasn't even ever squire," he said. Then he brightened.
Flippin went out to find Mary busy. "My dear," she said, "what are you doing?" Mary was rolling out pastry, with ice in a ginger-ale bottle. "I am going to make some tarts. There was a can of raspberries left and and well I'm just hungry for raspberry tarts, Mother." It was the Judge who told Becky that Dalton had not gone. "Mrs. Waterman is very ill, and they are all staying down."
With what he intended to be deep subtlety Mr. Wrenn drew her away to the barroom, and these two children, over two glasses of ginger-ale, looked their innocent and rustic love so plainly that Mrs. Arty and Tom sneaked away. Nelly cut out a dance, which she had promised to a cigar-maker, and started homeward with Mr. Wrenn.
"Don't bother," said Ralph Bingham. "It doesn't matter," said Arthur Jukes. The Heel of Achilles On the young man's face, as he sat sipping his ginger-ale in the club-house smoking-room, there was a look of disillusionment. "Never again!" he said. The Oldest Member glanced up from his paper. "You are proposing to give up golf once more?" he queried. "Not golf. Betting on golf."
There, alternately reading and dozing, she incidentally listened to the flow of conversation poured forth by her small charge, varied only by occasional offerings to her, usually suggested by Miss Bell and ranging from the minnow he had succeeded in catching with a worm and a bent pin to the choicest tidbits of the luncheon. There were two glasses for the ginger-ale.
On the walls hang huge casks and kegs and wine bottles in their straw covers all the sign manuals of past and future orgies. Yet the 'Pirate's Den' is 'dry' straw-dry, brick-dry as dry as the Sahara. If you want a 'drink' the well-mannered 'cut-throat' who serves you will give you a mighty mug of ginger-ale or sarsaparilla.
Imagine, then, his feelings when at four o'clock or a little later a wagon the wagon of his hiring rolled into the enclosure bringing one horse only, and in place of the others a pile of tent-cloths and theatrical boxes, on which sat and smiled Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer, his professional rivals. He had been drinking ginger-ale all day, and in copious draughts.
"Now watch him open them, Ruth," said Charlotte with pretended admiration. "See how skilfully he does it. No girl could ever attain to anything like that. After all boys are superior beings and " "Wow," gasped Joe, as a fountain of ginger-ale rose from the bottle and struck him squarely in the face. "Here, take that bottle out of the way. It's going all over my creamed potatoes," shouted Arthur.
These "balls" were usually quite as innocent as those that took place in larger cities, under more elegant and exclusive surroundings; but the stricter Methodists and Congregationalists of the countryside did not believe in dancing at all, especially when there might be a "ginger-ale high-ball" or a glass of ale connected with it.
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