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You know I'll never trouble the brats; in fact, Cadenet has already taken them bread and heel-taps." After that it was said of him in both faubourgs: "He is not a bad fellow!" The "loan by the little week," as interpreted by Cerizet, is not, considering all things, so cruel a thing as the pawn-shop. Cerizet loaned ten francs Tuesday on condition of receiving twelve francs Sunday morning.
Pomeroy's complaisance and so easy his mood, he must needs have up three or four bottles of Brooks and Hellier that had lain in the cellar half a century the last of a batch and give her a third time in bumpers and no heel-taps. But that opened Mr. Thomasson's eyes.
Here, sit down in this corner, old lady, where you can take in the beauties o' the place all at one squint." Almost before he had done speaking two large cups of hot coffee and two thick slices of buttered bread lay before them. "There you are all ship-shape. Now drink, an' no heel-taps."
On the contrary in the leather business, for example, almost every scrap of material can either be utilized or sold for cash; odds and ends of the hides go into glue stock, small bits of leather are made into heel-taps or hardware fittings. But in refining cane-sugar there is nothing to be turned back into money to reimburse the manufacturer for his outlay. What isn't sugar is dead loss."
The intelligent foreigner seeing them thus dispose of their food would have understood why England is a great nation. He would have understood why Britons never, never will be slaves. They never stopped except to drink, and then at each gulp they emptied their glass; no heel-taps!
To your health and that of your company!" This was an habitual phrase of the worthy postilion, a sort of extension of politeness which did not need the presence of others to justify it in his eyes. "Ha!" said he, after drinking and smacking his lips, "there's vintage for you and I have gulped it down at a swallow as if it were heel-taps!" "That was a mistake, Antoine." "Yes, it was a mistake."
Clive obeyed the paternal orders; dressed himself quickly; and descending, found his father smoking his morning cigar in the apartment where they had dined the night before, and where the tables still were covered with the relics of yesterday's feast the emptied bottles, the blank lamps, the scattered ashes and fruits, the wretched heel-taps that have been lying exposed all night to the air.
An' right there," said Hunch impressively, "right there is where yer Uncle Hunch feels a real glimmer in his bean an' goes back. Thin-lips ain't in sight. Yer Uncle Hunch softly heel-taps it upstairs an' finds the darkish guy adoptin' a paper with a fatherly pat, which he slips in his coat pocket. Whereupon whiles he's lockin' the desk drawer ag'in, aforesaid uncle slips downstairs an' out.
On the return and the twenty miles seemed short enough lunch was served, and was the occasion of a good deal of hilarity and innocent badinage. There were those who still sang, and insisted on sipping the heel-taps of the morning gayety; but was King mistaken in supposing that a little seriousness had stolen upon the party a serious intention, namely, between one and another couple?
"It'll be lonely in the 'Hills. Got any more quail?" And that was all he ever did say on that subject, then or at any other time. "Here's to her!" laughed Courtenay at last, rising and holding up his glass. "We can't explain her, so let's drink to her! No heel-taps! Here's to Rewa Gunga's mistress, Yasmini!"
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