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Updated: May 18, 2025
I have been shouting for claret this half-hour in vain, do get us some nutriment down here, and the Lord will reward you. What a pity it is," he added, in a lower tone, to his neighbor "what a pity a quart-bottle won't hold a quart; but I'll bring it before the House one of these days." That he kept his word in this respect, a motion on the books of the Honorable House will bear me witness.
"There is not a drop in it," said Arthur, shaking his head, and he lifted the breaker and shook it lightly it was quite empty. He now proceeded to force open the locker, in the hope of finding them something that might be serviceable to us; but its entire contents consisted of a coil of fine rope, some pieces of rope-yarn, an empty quart-bottle, and an old and battered hatchet-head.
Perkins noted it the moment he stepped through the door one morning early in the next week. He had brought with him a quart-bottle of delicious, fresh milk, and Johnnie drank it, slowly, cup by cup, as they talked. What had helped most, Mr. Perkins declared, was the open window at night, the fresh air. And Johnnie must have even more fresh air. "But how're we going to manage it?" Mr.
"I won't tell you," came the surly retort. "You don't have to," Reade snapped, as he suddenly ran one hand over the sallow man's clothing. Out of the fellow's hip pocket Tom briskly brought a quart-bottle to light. It was about half-filled with some liquid. "Here, give that back to me!" growled the fellow. "It's mine."
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