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Updated: May 10, 2025
He lit his pipe, smoked it out, refilled it and was in the act of refilling it, when Harvey Bradley came in as has been made known in another place. While the man sat smoking and alone in the cabin, he fell to brooding over the troubles at the mills.
In large alcoves well-dressed Chinamen reclined on tables of marble and teakwood, filling and refilling the opium pipe with an infinity of patience that if otherwise applied might have led to greatness instead of dreams. "These men are just on exhibition," said Stone, contemptuously. "Wait till I show you the real thing down in the slime.
"They won't hurt you, man, unless they happen to fall in love with your black skin and marry you. Then I'd not be responsible for your head." "Men have long guns, and little guns in belts," continued Kala. "Pooh!" said Mr. Wright, turning to us and refilling our glasses, "the poor fellows have got frightened at their shadows.
I was hastily refilling it, when the gurgling sound struck upon the ears of my companions, who rushing down like the fainting animals who hear the music of the fountain in the desert, poured tumultuously into the cabin, and in spite of all my remonstrances to leave me sufficient for the completion of my desires, seized upon the flask in my hand, as well as upon all those that remained, emptied them in a few seconds with their copious draughts, and returned laughing and shouting to the deck above.
From the refilling point, which was only a stretch of the roadside, the Transport collected the Battalion's rations and delivered them to the Quartermaster's stores; and by means of the Transport the Quartermaster, after their necessary division between companies, forwarded rations to the front line.
The carpenter had finished his bulkheads and hatch-gratings, and the men were daily engaged in emptying the salt-water out of the casks and refilling them with fresh a somewhat slow and troublesome job.
'Why, replied the one-eyed bagman, 'it was observed to creak very much on the day of the wedding; but Tom Smart couldn't say for certain whether it was with pleasure or bodily infirmity. He rather thought it was the latter, though, for it never spoke afterwards. 'Everybody believed the story, didn't they? said the dirty-faced man, refilling his pipe. 'Except Tom's enemies, replied the bagman.
"Quite sure. I have fifteen extra cartridges, but, as I have practised refilling it in the dark, give it to me if you have occasion to empty it." "You seem to have thought this thing out pretty fully?" "I intend to succeed. Now, please, I must explain what I want Suarez to do."
Weary poured himself a modest "two fingers," and wondered if he had better claim to have reformed; Irish could and did drink long and deep, where Weary indulged but moderately. "No," he said, setting the glass down without refilling. "They sent me back on business. How's everything?"
"If your ears had been sharper, Francois, you might have heard them some time ago," said the guide, shaking the ashes out of his pipe and refilling it for the third time. "Ah, Louis, I do not pretend to such sharp ears as you possess, nor to such sharp wit either. But who do you think can be en route so late?"
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