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"The fool is dead drunk," he declared disgustedly. "We can't do anything with him to-night." "I say throw bucket water over him," hiccoughed the other genially, "allers sobers me off." Hawley made no response, evidently finding a seat on one end of the washstand. "Hardly worth while, Scott," he returned finally.
Out of that tangle of folly is my house to be struck down? It looks as if the fellow with his infernal "humanity," were the bad genius of an old nurse's tale. He's a good fellow, colonel, he means well. This fever will cure him, they say it sobers like bloodletting. He's a gallant fellow; you know that. He fought to the skeleton in our last big war. On my soul, I believe he's good for a husband.
She's been settin' there alongside of the stove for the last few hours and I been sort of keepin' an eye on her for Sam's sake." Doret breathed an oath. "Dat's nice fader she's got! I wish I let 'im drown." "Oh, he ain't exactly to blame. He's on a bender like to of killed a feller in here. Somebody'd ought to take care of this girl till he sobers up."
A course of such instruction sobers them down, and they will then give their rider far less trouble than if they are dashed off into the excitement of fox-hunting without having had good preliminary training. This is a fact which ladies should bear in mind; for I have found it work very successfully. There is nothing like plenty of regular work for taking the nonsense out of pulling horses. Mr.
A habit of computing steadies the mind, and subdues the soarings of imagination. It sobers the vagaries of trope and figure, substitutes truth for metaphor, and exactness for amplification. This girl, who if she had been fed on poetry and works of imagination, might have become a Miss Sparkes, now rather gives herself the airs of a calculator and of a grave computist.
"Did ye ever hear, Billy," she said, "that if we stand a dhrunk maan on his head it sobers him?" "Be the powers, no." "They say," she said with a twinkle in her eyes, "that it empties him of his contents." "Aye," sighed the sweep, "there's something in that, Anna; let's thry it on Boyle." There was an element of excitement in the suggestion and we youngsters hoped it would be carried out.
It becomes necessary at intervals to remind Master Smith that the man, as the useful and faithful friend of dog, has his rights. I deemed such interval had arrived. He flung himself on to the sofa, muttering. It sounded like "Wish I'd never got up this morning. Nobody understands me." Nothing, however, sobers him for long. Half-an-hour later, he was killing the next-door cat.
'And the sooner you are in it the better, child, for I must return and replace the key before he sobers. Or 'twill, be worse for me, he added snappishly, 'than for you. 'You are not coming with me? 'she exclaimed in surprise. 'No, I I can't quarrel with him, he answered hurriedly. 'I I am under obligations to him. And once in the carriage you'll be safe.
"There is no doubt about it," exclaims the sage of Wolfville, "woman is a refinin', an ennoblin' influence. * She subdooes the reckless, subjoogates the rebellious, sobers the friv'lous, burns the ground from onder the indolent moccasins of that male she's roped up in holy wedlock's bonds an' pints the way to a higher and happier life. And that's whatever!"
All Dulce's heart seems to go out to Roger, as she marks the glad light that brightens his dark eyes as he returns Fabian's greeting. After a little while every one sobers down, and Roger, who is looking brown and healthy, if a trifle thin, seats himself besides Dulce upon the small ottoman, that, as a rule, is supposed to be only equal to the support of one individual at a time.
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