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Now he looked at the shapely, strange-coloured face, with the small, fine, pinched nose and the manly cheeks, saw it frozen like an ice-pebble yet he had loved it. What was one to think or feel? His brain was beginning to freeze, his blood was turning to ice-water.
From Morris Krakower's fourth floor back the tune of a flute began to wind down the stairs. Out of her just-closed door Mrs. Finshriber poked a frizzled gray head. "Ice-water, ple-ase, Mrs. Kauf-man." At the door of the first floor back Mrs. Kaufman paused with her hand on the knob. "Mama, let me run and do it." "Don't you move, Ruby. When Annie goes up to bed it's time enough.
One quart of pastry flour, one pint of butter, one tablespoonful of salt, one of sugar, one and a quarter cupfuls of ice-water. Wash the hands with soap and water and dip them first in very hot and then in cold water. Rinse a large bowl or pan with boiling water and then with cold. Half fill it with cold water. Wash the butter in this, working it with the hands until it is light and waxy.
It is invariably offered to strangers; and any omission to do so is considered, and is usually intended, as a slight. It appears to be preferred by the people to any other beverage, even in the hottest weather; and while Americans in the heats of July would gladly resort to ice-water or lemonade, the Chinaman will quench his thirst with large draughts of boiling tea.
This country is composed of pie-eating, ice-water drinking, sour-faced business people. If one with emotions comes to this country, he is of course immoral. If there were no foreigners here, this country would resemble the North Pole. "I'm glad I am not an American in blood, for then I would not be as interesting to myself as I am now.
There were boys running with ice-water and glasses to the noisiest rooms. From some of these rooms the familiar bacchanalian songs were resounding even at that early hour of the evening. The chorus of "We're here because we're here" mingled with the words of that reminiscent old carol, "When we fit with Gineral Grant, by gosh."
"Would you want her for your wife if you knew she had belonged to another man?" He turned very cold. The palms of his hands were wet, as with ice-water. Something dark seemed to flit before his eyes. "I will not believe that of her," he said, shaking his head with an air of finality. "That is not an answer to my question." "Yes, I would still want her," he declared steadily.
Now, girls, don't sit in draughts, and, boys, beware of ice-water when you are warm. With this characteristic close Nan retired from office, and the girls went to enjoy one of the few rights allowed them.
And then Claudia arose, drank the ice-water brought her by the viscount, set the empty glass on a stand and requested Lord Vincent to give her his arm down the room, as she wished to speak to Captain Burghe. The viscount glanced at her in surprise, saw that her face was bloodless; but ascribed her pallor to fatigue.
Westfall began to watch for Louise and to trot after her like a doppelganger. He kept a tub of ice-water in a closet, in which he occasionally bathed his throbbing temples. He was devoured by a consuming passion. When he beheld her at a distance, he smacked his lips like a beautiful leopard. The heart of Miss Ruff was not of adamant. It was not a trap-rock paving stone.
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