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My heart's as heavy as lead, and that's the truth. Philip, send down for the bottle of schnapps, if it is only to clear my brain a little." Philip was glad of an opportunity to quit the poop; he wished to have a few minutes to recover himself and collect his own thoughts.
'Drink! repeated the engineer with amiable scorn: he was hanging on with both hands to the rail, a shadowy figure with flexible legs. 'Not from you, captain. You're far too mean, b'gosh. You would let a good man die sooner than give him a drop of schnapps. That's what you Germans call economy. Penny wise, pound foolish. He became sentimental.
In the mean time, in happy ignorance of all that was passing in the poop-cabin, Mynheer Kloots smoked his pipe, drank his schnapps, and played with Johannes. The animal had also contracted a great affection for Philip, and used to walk the watch with him.
On our arrival "schnapps" before the feast had evidently been too much for them, and ere dinner was over they were all to use a mild expression overcome. We left them at midnight to go on board our steamer, embracing each other and singing "Die Wacht am Rhein" at the top of their voice a performance hardly appreciated, I should imagine, by the occupants of the adjoining bungalows.
"Mother, I hope you haven't missed me, haven't been unwell?" she said, looking rather questioningly at the little glass of Schnapps, only half of which had been drunk. "Well yes, dear, I have. Terrible low spirits and all swimmy-like. Thought I was going to faint. But this man here has been so kind " her tears flowed afresh "We've bin talking of old times; he used to know me before "
"A few hundred feet back there." Orme indicated the direction. "Can I reach Arradale by this road?" "Next turn rechts. I will take de man some schnapps." "That will be good. His friends will make it right with you." "Ach! Do not say so!" The German shook his head in deprecation of the idea that he wished any return for his services.
In the afternoon of the next day his battalion approached Saarbruecken and bivouacked about two miles from the town. Of course we all went out to welcome it; some bearing peace-offerings of cigars, others the drink-offering of potent Schnapps. The Vogt family were left the sole inmates of the Hagen, delicacy preventing their accompanying us.
Bernard Moore Barney, for short was to be a physician, and had already passed an apprenticeship in a pharmacy, coincident with his college term in Jack's class. "By the powers of mud and blood, Nick, dear, I have it!" "Have what, Barney, me b'y?" Nick asked, mimicking Barney's quaintly displaced vowels. "Why, the way to get rid of Old Schnapps and Blitzen more power to me!"
'After leaving Falkenborg we experienced a great change in the character of the people. Kindness and honesty were changed for ill-looks and petty extortions. On a bridge between Moruss and Asa, the woman who kept it and our drivers charged a double toll, and drank the overplus in schnapps before our faces!
"I bide my time; but not very long. Only one word for thy good, Charlie. I will fling thee senseless into the river, if ever I catch thy girl-face there again." "Mayhap, Master Carver, it is more than thou couldst do. But I will not keep thee; thou art not pleasant company to-night. All I want is a light for my lanthorn, and a glass of schnapps, if thou hast it."
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