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They came in, and when I was back in bed, I heard them talking and then laughing in the room below, with Aunt Bridget louder than all the rest, and when I asked what she was doing my mother told me she was serving out bunloaf and sherry-wine. I fell asleep before the incident was over, but as soon as I awoke in the morning I conceived the idea of singing the Waits myself.
Other but imperfect crystals were brought to light, some fragments of which exhibited the deepest golden tints of the topaz, and others the tints of the sherry-wine colored topazes of Siberia.
I won't marry then, not I! I'll 'old on and learn the orf'cers' ways an' apply for exchange into a reg'ment that doesn't know all about me. Then I'll be a bloomin' orf'cer. Then I'll ask you to 'ave a glass o' sherry-wine, Mister Lew, an' you'll bloomin' well 'ave to stay in the hanty-room while the Mess-Sergeant brings it to your dirty 'ands." "'S'pose I'm going to be a Bandmaster? Not I, quite.
We went likewise to the vaults of sherry-wine, which have the same characteristics as those just described, but are less extensive.
Didn't know a glass o' good sherry-wine when he'd got it. Free wi' the siller that's a' ye can say for him free wi' the siller!" Finding it impossible to extract from Mr. Bishopriggs any clearer description of the man who had been with Anne at the inn than this, Blanche approached the main object of the interview.
"There's nothing to prevent your becoming a Bandmaster, Lew," said the Bandmaster, who had composed waltzes of his own, and worked day and night in the interests of the Band. "What did he say?" demanded Jakin, after practice. "'Said I might be a bloomin' Bandmaster, an' be asked in to 'ave a glass o' sherry-wine on Mess-nights." "Ho! 'Said you might be a bloomin' non-combatant, did 'e!
It was a long time before I got to the gate, and then I had begun to be nervous and to have half a mind to turn back. But the thought of the bunloaf and the sherry-wine buoyed me up, and presently I found myself on the high road, crossing a bridge and turning down a lane that led to the sea, whose moaning a mile away was the only sound I could hear. I knew quite well where I was going to.
And canst mind" she prodded Solomon's shoulder with her finger-tip, while her eyes twinkled between the crevices of their lids "canst mind the sherry-wine, and the zilver-snuffers, and how Joan Dummett was took bad when we were coming home, and Jack Griggs was forced to carry her through the mud; and how 'a let her fall in Dairyman Sweet-apple's cow-barton, and we had to clane her gown wi' grass never such a mess as a' were in?"
We went likewise to the vaults of sherry-wine, which have the same characteristics as those just described, but are less extensive.
Now for sure she'd nothing to grumble at, sitting so grand at table with a glass of sherry-wine to drink." "The husband looks a cantankerous chap," remarked Caleb. "Poor thing! it's his liver," said Mrs. Bateson, taking up the cudgels as usual on behalf of the bilious and oppressed. "You can see from his complexion that he is out of order, and that all that rich dinner will do him no good.
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