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At the tenth intermission he suggested soda-water again, after which they returned to their seats. "I hope people aren't talking about us," she said, with a pleased laugh. "I oughtn't to have given you all these dances. It's perfectly fatal for a girl to show such preference for one man. But we are so congenial, and you do remind me "
But the Chinese, even those who are the victims of preventable misfortunes, show a vast passive indifference to the excitement of the foreigners; they wait for it to go off, like the effervescence of soda-water.
I gave him a comical look, and followed the captain; but I was kept waiting for a few moments at the door while the servant was summoned, and when I did go in my officer was lying back in his chair, with ice on the table, and a great glass of what seemed to be soda-water and brandy before him, but which proved by the decanter to be sherry. "Oh," he cried angrily, "there you are, sir!
"We can have a peaceful and comfortable talk here, doctor," he remarked, as he sat down near Bryce, after fetching glasses and soda-water. "I live all alone, like a hermit my bit of work's done by a woman who only looks in of a morning. So we're all by ourselves. Light your cigar! same as that I gave you at Barthorpe. Um well, now," he continued, as Bryce settled down to listen.
Then I shall report progress. Adieu, till then! Kind regards to your poor sister. I think we shall have a mild winter. Not one warning twinge as yet of the old rheumatism. Ever your devoted old friend and preux chevalier, The captain had completed his letter, sipped his soda-water, and was affixing to his communication his seal, when he heard the rattle of a post-chaise without.
He did not want much only a bottle of soda-water, and to know if there was a letter at the bar directed to George Talboys. The waiter brought the soda-water before the young men had seated themselves in a shady box near the disused fire-place. No; there was no letter for that name. The waiter said it with consummate indifference, while he mechanically dusted the little mahogany table.
Seventeen, and nothing in her head but Brighton Beach and soda-water fountains and joy-riding. Just you watch; some day she'll meet up with some dinky fakir or ribbon clerk at one of those places, and the first thing you know for a son-in-law you'll have a crook." "Miriam!" "Yes, you will! Those are the only chances a girl gets if she's not in the swim."
How shall I ever forget the joy inspired by one of those foaming cool flasks? We don't know the luxury of thirst in English climes. Sedentary men in cities at least have seldom ascertained it; but when they travel, our countrymen guard against it well. The road between Cairo and Suez is jonche with soda-water corks.
Aspinall and his solicitor retired to a room for a legal consultation. It began thus: "I say, Lane, fetch me a nobbler of brandy; a stiffener, mind." Lane fetched the stiffener in a soda-water bottle, and it cleared the legal atmosphere. When the court resumed business, Frank took his stand in the witness box, and a voice said: "Now, Mr. Barlow, look at me."
"No. . . . And you won't for years . . . not till I've educated you. . . . Am I right in thinking that you've forgotten all about my soda-water?" Eric led her into the dining-room and gave her a tumbler of soda-water with a hand that trembled. She had taken him by surprise as much as if she had struck him in the face.
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