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"'Very well, says the minister and we had the weddin'. Charlie High-ball burnt punk that smelled strong but fine, and swung his arms, Jim and the rest of the boys sayin' 'amen' every time there come a stop, and all the proceedin's goin' on grand, till the preacher got to the last of it, and then Pete broke in: "'I copper that statement, says he.
Tobacco smoke in clouds circled to the low ceiling, and many of the players were noisy and profane, while the various calls of faro, roulette, keno, and high-ball added to the confusion and to the din of shuffling feet and excited exclamations. Hampton glanced about superciliously, shrugging his shoulders in open contempt all this was far too coarse, too small, to awaken his interest.
I was standing before his chair, I may explain, watching him over its high back. I took the vial of prussic acid from my pocket, uncorked it and poured a few drops into his high-ball glass. I had recorked the vial, and was on the point of returning it to its hiding-place, when he turned to me.
It was like one of those Things Which Make Me Weep In This Great City so dear to the hearts of the sob-writers of his late newspaper. A waiter bustled up with a high-ball. Jimmy thanked him with his eyes. He needed it. He raised it to his lips. "He's always drinking " He set it down hurriedly. " and making a disgraceful exhibition of himself in public! I always think Jimmy Crocker "
There came no answer to his troubled mind as he sat there, alone, despising Ferris and doubting even Worthington's candor. He had revolved several future plans of action in his mind before reaching the vitreous substratum of the generous high-ball. His first indignant impulse was to give up the joint apartment in a fortnight.
The nobility were in the boxes and that part of the Coliseum never falls during an earthquake," and the soap man joined dad in a high-ball.
If she were my own daughter, I'd thrash you for that remark, sir." "If she were your own daughter, you wouldn't be discussing her with a high-ball in your hand." The General coughed. "Ahem! Eddie, I'd give a good deal to see that girl married. Leave the bottle on the table, boy. She will have money a lot of it one of these days.
"What's the matter with you, Greek?" Greek took his arms down from the back of his chair where he had clasped his hands behind his head, and finished his own high-ball. Nature in the beginning of things for him had been more kind than to his petulant friend. He was scarcely more than a boy twenty-five, perhaps, from the looks of him but physically a big man.
He tinkled the ice in his high-ball glass a process to which he had devoted himself with unaccustomed repetition this evening and, instead of mellowing into conviviality under his libations, his eyes narrowed a little and the small frowning line between his brows deepened. "The Big Fellow's having a grouch, eh, what?
Which would have given Ed Sorenson a fresh jolt in his breathing apparatus if he had overheard, and shriveled the cocky self-assurance with which he sipped a high-ball that moment at Vorse's bar. In a region as sparsely settled by white people as San Mateo and its adjoining counties there were not, as Janet put it, more than a dozen Johnson families.
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