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"Why not?" retorted Harry. "We are!" "Oh, Lud!" drawled Cecile, languidly fanning her flushed face, "I would I had drunk small-beer Harry, if you kick me again I'll pinch!" "It's a shame," observed Ruyven, "that gentlemen of our age may not take a glass of wine together in comfort." "Your age!" laughed Dorothy. "Cousin Ormond is twenty-three, silly, and I'm eighteen or close to it."
These plays immortial? Ah, parrysampe, as the French say, this is too strong the small-beer of the "Sea Capting," or of any suxessor of the "Sea Capting," to keep sweet for sentries and sentries! Barnet, Barnet! do you know the natur of bear? I've notted down a few frazes here and there, which you will do well do igsamin:
"For a hogshead of sack," interrupted Wildrake; "the bargain was made in a cellar in the Vintry." "I am as mad as thou art, to trust any thing to thee," said Markham; "I scarce believe thou hast thy senses yet." "What should ail me?" said Wildrake "I trust I have not tasted liquor in my sleep, saving that I dreamed of drinking small-beer with Old Noll, of his own brewing.
"Odso!" was the impatient retort, "there's other news travelling to Whitehall that will make small-beer of this and belike it's well on its way there already." "What news is that?" asked Trenchard. Vallancey told them. "The Duke has landed he came ashore this morning at Lyme." "The Duke?" quoth Mr. Wilding, whilst Trenchard merely stared. "What Duke?" "What Duke! Lord, you weary me!
It is about blood and not wine that the quarrel now is, and who shall foretell its end? * Written in July, 1861. How much claret that would be port if it could is handed about in every society! In the House of Commons what small-beer orators try to pass for strong? Stay: have I a spite against any one? It is a fact that the wife of the Member for Bungay has left off asking me and Mrs.
I will drink his small-beer." Somebody observed that Garrick could not have done this. WILKES. 'Garrick would have made the small-beer still smaller.
'John Anderson, my Joe, John! Oh, the distinguished name!" Thrilling with exasperation, to which it would have been sheer folly to have given vent for there was no contending with that unsubstantial feather, that mealy-winged moth I extinguished my taper, locked my bureau, and left her, since she would not leave me. Small-beer as she was, she had turned insufferably acid.
After reporting myself, however, I drew my remaining tenpence per day for the six weeks, a penny being deducted from my pay per day for small-beer, which was not allowed while I was away. Soon after our arrival at the barracks my wife became very ill owing to having been frost-bitten during the march, and remained so for upwards of a week.
"I drink your health, Cousin George," she said, gravely "Benny, let that wine alone! Is there no small-beer there, that you go coughing and staining your bib over wine forbidden? Take his glass away, Ruyven! Take it quick, I say!"
Burke, writing in 1794, says: 'In quarters the innkeepers are obliged to find for the soldiers lodging, fire, candle-light, small-beer, salt and vinegar gratis. Burke's Corres. iv. 258. This alludes to the pleadings of a Stoic and an Epicurean for and against the existence of the Divinity in Lucian's Jupiter the Tragic.
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