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Updated: May 16, 2025
Not me! You ask him if he'll let me go, and you'll see. I sent him out this morning pretty tidy to parade, quite early and don't he like you to dress him and when he come back, looking done-up, I was ready for him with a pick-me-up. You see there's a lot of him, and he want nootriment." "`What's this? he says.
But the clockwork that enabled him to speak had been wound up and he kept saying: "Pick-me-up! Pick-me-up! Pick-me-up!" until they had again raised him and balanced him upon his feet, when he added politely: "Ma-ny thanks!"
They had knocked together a box house, where they lived and did the cooking, and served the meals in a tent pitched against the side. That tent was joyful with placards on it calculated to redeem the world-worn pilgrim from the sinfulness of boarding houses and pick-me-up hotels.
"She won't thank you for this lot," he answered. "Cricket, The Sportsman, The Sporting Life, The Pink 'Un, A Life of W. G. Grace, The Topical Times, Pick-me-up, The Pelican, by Jove she will have something to tell your people when she gets home."
"In his room where?" "Here, of course. He came in about 6.30, took his key and a Marconigram, and has not showed up since." Uncle Horace could withstand the strain no longer. "Would you mind sending the waiter again?" he gasped. "If I don't get a pick-me-up of some sort quickly, I'll collapse." Aunt Louisa would dearly have loved to put in a word, but she knew not what to say.
To see 'those two' in so unlikely a spot was quite a merciful 'pick-me-up. At the MacAnder, like all London, Time pauses. This small but remarkable woman merits attention; her all-seeing eye and shrewd tongue were inscrutably the means of furthering the ends of Providence. With an air of being in at the death, she had an almost distressing power of taking care of herself.
'I take one between turns, said Herr Pauer 'never more One is a pick-me-up. Anything more than one is wrong. He poured a stiff dose of rum into either glass, and looking towards Paul, water-jug in hand, said, 'Say when. 'None for me, Paul answered. 'I never touched the cursed stuff till Saturday. I'll never touch it again.
Above the rows of bottled "bitters," the fiery drink of the temperance frauds, high over the three score jars of "nervines" and pick-me-up preparations, towered a life-size marble statue of Hygeia, glowing in a voluptuous Parian nakedness.
"Say," he said, pleasantly enough, as he handed out a key, "don't you want a pick-me-up? You're kind o' white round the gills." David nodded. "Where's the bar?" he said thickly. He found his way to it, and while he waited for his whisky he lifted a corkscrew from the counter and looked at it closely. He took his two fingers of whisky, and followed the bell-boy to a room.
Word had been passed to Red McIvor, who had lost no time in getting on the trail of this fifty-thousand-dollar pick-me-up, with the result that he had reached out a hairy arm, twisted his fingers in Mr. Podmore's coat-collar and calmly dispossessed him of the sealed envelope which he had recovered from the stump.
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