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During his performance the lights were extinguished except for the spotlight on the flute-player and another roving beam that threw flickering shadows and changing kaleidoscopic colors over the massed dancers. Edith had danced herself into that tired, dreamy state habitual only with débutantes, a state equivalent to the glow of a noble soul after several long highballs.
They had less than two hundred dollars ahead. But Mr. Schwirtz borrowed a hundred from his friend, Burke McCullough, and did not visibly have to suffer from want of highballs, cigars, and Turkish baths. From the window of their room Una used to see him cross the street to the café entrance of the huge Saffron Hotel and once she saw him emerge from it with a fluffy blonde.
It rarely was tea; Nancy wondered that even the women did not care for tea. They sometimes drank it, and crunched cinnamon toast, after card parties, but on Saturdays and Sundays, when men were in the group, stronger drinks were the fashion, cocktails and highballs, or a bowl of punch.
There was no attempt on Turner's part to carry out his threat of the night before; nor did he, as the crew had prophesied, order the Ella into the nearest port. He kept much to himself, spending whole days below, with Williams carrying him highballs, always appearing at dinner, however, sodden of face but immaculately dressed, and eating little or nothing.
Julius Edward Schwirtz, and all of them, except Una herself, had cigarettes and highballs, and Una confusedly felt that she was getting to be an Independent Woman. Then, in January, 1909, she left the stiff, gray scrub-rag which symbolized the routine of Mr. Troy Wilkins's office. In a magazine devoted to advertising she had read that Mr.
Carwell had said he felt "queer," and had acted as though dizzy. The major, who was himself quite a convivial spirit, attributed it to some highballs he and his friend had had in the clubhouse just prior to the game. Mr.
You know, I've been brought up in an awfully old-fashioned way. My father would simply kill me if he thought I drank beer and as for cocktails and highballs and horse's necks, and all those real drinks ... well, I hate to think of it. Ha! ha!" And she laughed in a silly way which made Burke know that she was beginning to feel the effect.
"Late hours, cards, and highballs," observed Cecile scornfully. "You're horridly smooth and fat, Louis." Malcourt turned to Hamil. "Glad to see you've emerged from your shell at last. The rumour is that you're working too hard." "There's no similar rumour concerning you," observed Cecile, who had never made any pretence of liking Malcourt.
Pothunter, who never drank anything but black and white highballs, being in mourning for her husband, who oh, I've forgotten what he did died, like as not. Spaghetti-weary reader, wouldst take one penny-in-the-slot peep into the fair land of Bohemia? Then look; and when you think you have seen it you have not. And it is neither thimbleriggery nor astigmatism.
If a girl sneaked off alone with boys in the dark, or was caught smoking cigarettes if a married man was seen consorting with a divorcee if a woman drank highballs and gambled and broke up a happy home if any member of the community did any one of a number of things which were considered improper, or unworthy, or immoral, or dishonorable, public opinion was sternly in evidence, unquestioned and unquestionable, to judge and to sentence.
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