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And although the glasses they had before them were not of "quinset," since the season for ices had not yet come, all the old women, to show their approval of the philosophy expounded, drank their lemon-water instead with gulps and gapes of satisfaction. Tia Picores, meanwhile, was getting angry at the steadfast balkiness of the two rivals. "Well, now, speak up, numskulls!
"Romans here! What are they doing?" "They have a cart decorated with flags, signorino, and they are selling lemon-water and ices. All the people say that they are Romans and that is how they sing in Rome." The long and lugubrious chant of the ice-venders rose up again, strident and melancholy as a song chanted over a corpse. "It's funny to sing like that to sell ices," Maurice said.
"One day you said a penetrating thing to me: "'He's not very ill, but he's feeling wretched. Run along and do the sympathetic V.A.D. touch! "For a moment I, just able to do a poultice or a fomentation, resented it. "But you were right.... One has one's métier." So now one steps down from chintz covers and lemonade to the Main Army and lemon-water.
"Why, Grand Master," he said, pointing to the little table by the head of the bed on which his night drinks stood, "you might be going to drown me. Do you expect me to drink all these in the night?" "I think that there is only your posset, sire," I said, "and the lemon-water which you generally drink." "And two or three other things?"
He looked more uncomfortable at this, but he answered boldly enough that he had served a posset, some lemon water, and some milk. "But orders were given only for the lemon-water and the posset," I said. "True, your excellency," he answered.
Others thronged around Artois, taking possession of the many little tables, and calling for ices, lemon-water, syrups, and liqueurs.
And so there is a great coming and going up the outside stairs and through the wonderful doorway: beggars crouch under the wall of the terrace; the sellers of cakes, of syrups and lemon-water, and of the big and luscious watermelons that are so popular in Cairo, display their wares beneath awnings of orange-colored sackcloth, or in the full glare of the sun, and, their prayers comfortably completed or perhaps not yet begun, the worshippers stand to gossip, or sit to smoke their pipes, before going on their way into the city or the mosque.
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