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I often wonder how he gits along, anyhow, without his juleps. "But there's a reason for what she's a doin'." He looked critically at the branch of pomegranates in his hand, then let it fly back to its place near the top of the bush. "You can bet your best shoe-strings there's a reason, but in all Gord's world there ain't nobody but her would act on it. I wonder if Miss Mary Cary knows about it?
We see less of him since we have ceased to be a religious country, religion no longer being an essential disguise for him. The Southern type, with his unction and his juleps, is better company, unless he is the hero of too many of his own anecdotes. He is commonly the possessor of a poetic gaze, a mane of silvery hair, and a noble neck.
"A cooling beverage at this hour is most grateful," said the minister, rejoicing in the icy feel of the glass, and falling hopefully to his own straw. "Clem makes them perfectly," said Miss Caroline. "What do you call them?" asked the minister. He had relinquished his straw, and his kind face shone with a pleased surprise. "Why, mint juleps," replied Miss Caroline, glancing quickly up.
Old Hurricane turned abruptly around and favored his nephew with a severe, scrutinizing gaze, demanding: "Herbert, have you been drinking so early in the morning? Demmy, sir, this is not the season for mint juleps before breakfast! Is that great, stout, round-bodied, red-faced old Doctor Williams a little woman? I see him sitting on the right of Miss Day. I didn't refer to him!
All had dined at an early hour, but a large side-board that stood in one corner of the council room always fitted up on these occasions was covered with vases containing wines, liqueurs, juleps, and punches of various kinds the latter the work of the indefatigable son of Esculapius, and of these the host and his guests partook freely, in commemoration of the day.
You ought seen some vem ole times me an Mist' Richard use to have 'ith Mist' Will " "Joe!" "Yessuh." "I want three more juleps and I want them right away." The troubled expression upon the coloured man's face deepened. "Mist' Richard say jes' one, suh," he said reluctantly. "I'm afraid " "Joe." "Yessuh."
While the happy slaves are sitting down on the levee, strumming their banjos, the poor plantation owner is up in his mansion drowning his sorrows in mint juleps." She had an edge of anger, too. "All right," she snapped. "But I'll tell you this, Joe Mauser. The world is out of gear, but the answer isn't for individuals to better their material lot by jumping their caste statuses."
Do you reckon I'se gwine git all dat misery?" "Betcher life," Brent answered, taking a few swallows and leaning back with a sigh of satisfaction. "That's all coming to you; but d'you want to know what the Colonel and I've decided to do if you quit making us juleps, you old devil?" Zack grinned.
I ain't one of the presumin' kind an' I hate to tell any man his own business, but if twenty years o' gamblin' an' meetin' all kinds an' conditions o' men ain't made me as fly as a road-runner, then that there artesian well is spoutin' mint juleps.
Sometimes only one bird and her mate would be tucked away in the shadow of the doorway; sometimes only an old pair, like Mrs. Horn and Richard, would occupy its corners. These porticoes and stone door-steps were really the open-air drawing-rooms of Kennedy Square in the soft summer nights. Here ices were served and cool drinks sherbets for the young and juleps and sherry cobblers for the old.
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