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The tone, together with the commonplace words, had the effect of a cold douche. She drew a sharp breath of relief, her hands unclenched. She was herself once more. She'd won. She turned slowly, as if reluctant to abandon the starry prospect without, to find him bending over a clutter of things scattered about his half-emptied case.
"I was going to take the pitcher, if either Virginia or this conscientious teetotaler cared for a shot." He chuckled unpleasantly. "I thought I could get more that way." They poured themselves mighty drinks, staggering portions that more than half-emptied the first of the quarts. Then they threw back their heads and drained the cups.
In the century which saw Germany deluged with blood for thirty years, and which witnessed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the revival of vehement persecution in France, it was not likely that Ireland should remain unaffected. Soon after James I came to the throne he commenced his famous Scotch plantation in the desolated and half-emptied province of Ulster.
Frequently, when he had wine served him of a peculiarly fine flavor, he would send half-emptied flagons of it to some of his friends, with a message to this effect, "Cyrus has not for some time met with pleasanter wine than this; and he has therefore sent some of it to you, and begs you will drink it to-day, with those whom you love best."
"Where's that lumbering fool Narcissus?" demanded Captain Barker, stamping his foot and pointing to the cluster over his head. Mr. Swiggs came forward, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. He had been the last to arrive, having lingered a minute to attend to the half-emptied mugs of his more impatient fellows. "Here," he announced.
These at once possessed themselves of the half-emptied wine-jars left by the deserters; gay music was got up, and then, wreathed with garlands on their heads and shoulders, and 'filled with the god' they drank, shouted and danced far into the night.
Hornbut, I ask ye hoo you, a minister o' the Church of England, can reconcile it to yer conscience to think though it be but for a minute that there can be ony good in a man and him no churchgoer? Sir, ye're a heretic not to say a heathen!" He sniggered to himself, and his hand crept to a half-emptied wine decanter.
He was utterly careless and untidy, and the utmost confusion reigned in his room. "Here the residue of a cold luncheon; there some full, some half-emptied, bottles.
As for this," pulling open a linen drawer half-emptied, and showing dainty feminine apparel, beribboned and belaced, in the most utter disorder "why, fie on you, Mrs. Potter! Is this the way to treat these pretty things?" He had seen enough. He paused a moment in the middle of the room with his nails to his lips, smiling to himself. "Ah, Mrs.
While her back was turned Farley winked leeringly at the visitor and offered him a half-emptied whiskey flask. Carmena was in time to see Lennon refuse the drink. Her fatigue-bent shoulders straightened to a deep-drawn breath, and her sunken eyes glowed softly.
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