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Whether the door was locked, whether he was knocking or fumbling with a key, or whether he spoke through the door to the person within I cannot tell what it was that came through the glasses straight to my nerves, so that I jumped at a sudden sound; and it was only the distant shrill call of an elk.
"I don't think I need trouble you," said he; "I never drink claret, at least not here; and there's enough of the old bin left to last some little time longer yet." Sir Louis drank two or three glasses of wine very quickly after each other, and they immediately began to tell upon his weak stomach. But before he was tipsy, he became more impudent and more disagreeable.
There were charades in the tent. Several glasses were broken. The corkscrew was disregarded as a useless implement, and whisky-bottles were decapitated against the tent poles.
"My own father used to drink not less than twenty glasses of tea a day, wherefor his days upon earth were long, peaceful, and strong; for he lived to be seventy-three years old, never having suffered from any ailment whatsoever. In weight he reached the respectable figure of three hundred and twenty pounds, and by profession he was a sexton in the village of Voskesensk."
My glasses are too moist for me to see well; look and tell me if you can make out anything, husband!" Even Hugh held his breath while the deacon turned the tiny medallion over in his hands. Then he snatched up a reading glass of considerable power from the table, and held it close to the object in his quivering clutch. They heard him give a cry, and it did not hint at disappointment. "Oh!
"Ephum" cried the Colonel, diving toward a counter where glasses were set out, a custom new to Eliphalet, "Ephum, some of that very particular Colonel Crittenden sent me over from Kentucky last week." An old darkey, with hair as white as the Colonel's, appeared from behind the partition.
"'Oh, ye shall have that, said she very calmly, for she was, and is, a quiet woman, and one that would put up with a great deal, rather than allow her voice to be heard by her neighbours. "My head was in a queer state the next day; for ye see I had as good as five glasses, and I never could properly stand above two.
How is he, good Austin? Well? That's right; and my dear sister? Ah, that damnable Peck! Still harping on the 'Anti-Capitalist, eh? But I'll make it up to you all now. Gentlemen, charge your glasses, a bumper-toast." Mr. "I respond to the sentiment in a flowing cup. Glasses are not forthcoming." Uncle Jack.
The Lord High Chancellor, taking his glasses from his nose, said that the Baron was laboring under a double delusion first, in thinking that the fact in question could be ascertained only by means of an ocular inspection by Kohlhaas, and then, in imagining that he, the Chancellor, possessed the authority to have Kohlhaas taken by a guard wherever the Squire happened to wish.
So when the first shot, which fell short, was fired from the howitzer, several of their officers rode to the eminence not more than thirty steps in front of the detached Confederate squadron, and lifting their glasses to their eyes, prepared to witness what they supposed to be artillery practice.
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