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Trunks still stood in the hall, though the Purdies had been quartered at the Presidio for nine months. From the rear of the house came the sound of bowl and chopper, where the Chinese cook was preparing luncheon, and the major's man appeared, walking around the garden to the veranda, with a cluster of mint juleps on a copper tray.
At these words several of the company turned. "Send it south!" roared a Texan Furioso, emptying his tumbler. "Send it south!" echoed the others, and "south" the fragrant juleps were "sent," as the land baron unceremoniously tore himself away from the group. "They say the floods are rising," said the man with whom Mauville had conferred, at the door.
The Plaza was deserted; woe-begone burros drawled forth sacrilegious brays, as the warm sunbeams roused them from hard, grassless ground, to scent their breakfast among straw and bones. Poor Mexicans hurried to and fro, casting suspicious glances around; los Yankees at El casa Americano drank their juleps, and puffed their cigarettes in silence.
We will return shortly, and shall be expecting some of your best juleps." For the Colonel belonged to that school of Kentucky gentlemen, still existing if not flourishing as of yore, whose daily routine was punctuated into poetic rhythm by fragrant mint and venerable bourbon with a regularity that would have brought confusion to a younger generation.
"Why wouldn't he take it?" "Oh, there wasn't anything fine about it, Colonel," he answered with a touch of irritation. "He couldn't take it because he saw us with some juleps this morning. He says he has to have healthy skin for grafting." The Colonel cleared his throat. He had just been contemplating a signal to Zack, but now the idea seemed somehow inappropriate. "Why not Bradford?" he asked.
The practice of lounging, cigar in mouth, sipping juleps and alcoholic decoctions in common with smugglers and small folk, is fast unhinging society.
The day before the one set for their departure was intensely warm and oppressive, and everybody was almost prostrated by the heat. Lady Cameron and Mrs. Mencke could only exist by lying, lightly clad, in hammocks swung upon the north piazza of the hotel, while Mr. Mencke idled away the hours as best he could, in the smoking and reading-room, or in imbibing mint juleps.
Standing at a table in the centre of the stage, with his friends grouped about him, he delivers that inimitable, rambling, character monologue so famous in "A Magnolia Flower," at the same time that he deftly makes juleps for the party.
"The whole frozen polar sea itself couldn't weaken that mixture of elemental forces. See to it," I went on sternly, "that you remember only the innocent parts of it if you are ever asked for the recipe." She actually cowered. "Also as to mint juleps remember that you have forgotten, if you ever knew how they are made." "Dear, dear and our Bishop did enjoy his mint julep so!"
"I don't know," said Ray Vilas slowly, "whether or not you ever heard that I was born and raised in Kentucky." "Yessuh," returned Joe humbly. "I heerd so." "Well, then," said the young man in a quiet voice, "you go and get me three juleps. I'll settle it with Mr. Richard." "Yessuh."
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