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Tom came back again into the room, followed by a servant bringing seltzer-water and things, they found it was nearly eleven. 'I must bid your mamma good-night and be off, said Frank King to Madge. 'Oh, she said, 'it is unnecessary; mamma goes to her room early. She will make her excuses to you to-morrow. In an instant the pale, pretty face had flushed up.
He now proposed supper, and poor Jack was for supper too, and especially more drink, champagne and seltzer-water; "bring champagne and seltzer-water, there is nothing like it." Clive could not object to this entertainment, which was ordered forthwith, and the four young men sat down to share it.
Fancy, gentlemen, Monsieur le Vicomte de Gerfaut, a native of Gascony, a roue by profession, a star of the first magnitude in literature, is afflicted by nature with a stomach which has nothing in common with that of an ostrich; he has need to use the greatest care. So we have him drink seltzer-water principally, and feed him on the white meat of the chicken.
A little circle quickly gathered round him, and he was inexhaustible in racy stories and whimsicalities. While he rattled on under cover of the others' laughter, he poured out a glass of seltzer-water and took from his pocket a little box on which was written, in large letters, "Vichy Salts." He shook the powder out into the glass and stirred it round with a spoon.
"A brown man with bright eyes." "And you?" said Monsieur Maurice, turning to Hartmann. "I I thought I saw something," stammered the attendant, with a violent effort at composure. "But it was nothing." Monsieur Maurice looked at him as if he would look him through; got up, still looking at him; went to the sideboard, and, still looking at him, filled another tumbler with Seltzer-water.
Bovary invited him to have a drink, and he thoroughly understood the uncorking of the stone bottles. "You must," he said, throwing a satisfied glance all round him, even to the very extremity of the landscape, "hold the bottle perpendicularly on the table, and after the strings are cut, press up the cork with little thrusts, gently, gently, as indeed they do seltzer-water at restaurants."
Macleod put some sherry on the table, and a handful of cigars; his friend asked whether he could not have a glass of seltzer-water and a cigarette. "And how do you like the rooms I got for you?" "There is not much fresh air about them, nor in this narrow street," Macleod said, frankly; "but that is no matter for I have been out all day all over London."
My half-pound shell was exceedingly simple. A cast-iron bottle, similar in shape to a German seltzer-water, formed the core, around which the lead was cast. The neck of the iron bottle projected through the pointed cone of the projectile, and formed a nipple to receive the percussion-cap. In external appearance the shell was lead, the iron bottle being concealed within.
The party dismounted near a table and asked for seltzer-water. People they knew, walking about the garden, came up to them. Among them the army doctor in high boots, and the conductor of the band, waiting for the musicians. The doctor must have taken Nikitin for a student, for he asked: "Have you come for the summer holidays?" "No, I am here permanently," answered Nikitin.
Charles looked up from his paper and nodded slightly; the stranger raised his eyebrows a little and looked at Alphonse. He dropped his cue on the floor. "Excuse me, gentlemen, I'm not in the mood for billiards to-day," said he, "permit me to leave off. Waiter, bring me a bottle of seltzer-water and a spoon I must take my dose of Vichy salts."
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