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Updated: May 20, 2025
There is a kind lady in the neighbourhood, who takes in dressmaking for the neighbouring maid-servants, and has a small establishment of lollipops, theatrical characters, and ginger-beer for the boys in Little Craggs Buildings, hard by the Running Footman public-house, where father and other gentlemen's gentlemen have their club: this good soul also sells Sunday newspapers to the footmen of the neighbouring gentry; and besides, has a stock of novels for the ladies of the upper servants' table.
"The tender!" And sure enough, out of the thick weather rolling up away over Bovisand they spied now a Service cutter bearing across close-hauled, leaning under her big tops'l and knocking up the water like ginger-beer with the stress of it.
I've got to be back in school directly." "I'll have a look for it. Now, I guess you like ginger-beer, don't you?" Stephen was particularly partial to ginger-beer, as it happened, and said so. "That's the style," said Mr Cripps, producing a bottle. "Walk into that while I go and get the paper." Stephen did walk into it with great relish, and began to think Mr Cripps quite a gentleman.
He determined not to expose his companions, at any rate: but his uncle would be displeased; and this thought was so sad that Hugh cried himself to sleep. His uncle and aunt were at church the next morning; and Hugh could not forget the ginger-beer, or help watching his uncle: so that, though he tried several times to attend to the sermon; he knew nothing about it when it was done.
The police, with imperturbable gravity, brought ginger-beer bottles into court which had been found in O'Flynn's apartment, and which, they averred, could be converted into very formidable weapons of offence.
"Can you really believe that he sat here? actually in this little room? Looked out of the window isn't it wonderful, Jock?" Jock, like Mr. Fearing, ever wakeful on the enchanted ground, rolled his head uncomfortably, sniffed, and said, "It smells musty!" Both he and Mhor were frankly much more interested in the fact that ginger-beer and biscuits were to be had in the cottage next door.
We praised their forethought loudly at the sight of an extra bottle of champagne, with two bottles of ginger-wine, two of currant, two of raisin, four pint bottles of ale, six of ginger-beer, a Dutch cheese, a heap of tarts, three sally-lunns, and four shillingsworth of toffy. Temple and I joined our apples to the mass: a sight at which some of the boys exulted aloud.
The boy accepted the post of salesman with alacrity, and Ned turned to his friend and seized his hand. "Barret," said he, in a low, earnest voice, "if I succeed in holding out, I own my salvation, under God, to you. I've tasted nothing but ginger-beer for many a long day, and I really believe that I have got my enemy down at last.
That frightened Bill a bit, and the next night, instead of 'aving lemonade, 'e had five bottles o' stone ginger-beer, six of different kinds of teetotal beer, three of soda-water, and two cups of coffee.
Its fur stood on end with horror and indeed a good deal of the ginger-beer had been spilt on the blue smock of the Lamb. The Psammead dug with its hands and feet, and vanished in an instant and a whirl of sand. The children marked the spot with a ring of stones. 'We may as well get along home, said Robert.
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