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The very morning the unhappy woman left, I made a vigorous onslaught on the drink. "`Fetch up the cellar! I cried; and the cellar was forthwith fetched up. Beer barrels, wine bottles and spirit-bottles, dozens of pale ale and bitter beer, were soon dragged into light.
The gentlemen brought in their spirit-bottles; the housemaid placed divers plated bedroom candlesticks under the card-table; and the servants retired for the night. Chairs were drawn round the table, and the conversation proceeded in the customary manner. John Evenson, who never ate supper, lolled on the sofa, and amused himself by contradicting everybody.
Presently he came alongside the table on which the footman had placed the spirit-bottles and syphons. Heyton mixed himself a stiff glass of whisky and soda, drank it almost at a draught, then nodded at the reflection of himself in the mirror opposite him. "I think I could work it," he muttered. "Yes, I think I could work it." Miriam went on to the drawing-room.
John Chinn looked over with a ready barrel. But the red trail led straight as an arrow even to his grandfather's tomb, and there, among the smashed spirit-bottles and the fragments of the mud image, the life left, with a flurry and a grunt. "If my worthy ancestor could see that," said John Chinn, "he'd have been proud of me. Eyes, lower jaw, and lungs. A very nice shot."
'And don't you tumble down and break the bottle, Dandy. Accidents with spirit-bottles are not excused. Dandy went on the errand, after an energetic grunt. In due time he returned with the bottle, whole and sound, and Mr. Coxwell's compliments. Mrs. Mel examined the cork to see that no process of suction had been attempted, and then said: 'Carry it up to him, Dandy.
I daresay I shall have to do it. But you may depend upon me. I'll turn over a new leaf. There if it'll be any pleasure to you you may take all that's left in my cupboard, and smash away at the bottles, as good Mr Oliphant did." Jacob needed no second permission. Ale, wine, and spirit-bottles were brought out though but few were left that had not been emptied.
The dinner or luncheon was spread out on a white cloth, and consisted of the usual abundance of fowls, pies, and tarts, proper to such occasions, and flanked by what was evidently considered no secondary part of the refreshments a compact regiment of pale ale, porter, wine, and spirit-bottles.
'And don't you tumble down and break the bottle, Dandy. Accidents with spirit-bottles are not excused. Dandy went on the errand, after an energetic grunt. In due time he returned with the bottle, whole and sound, and Mr. Coxwell's compliments. Mrs. Mel examined the cork to see that no process of suction had been attempted, and then said: 'Carry it up to him, Dandy.
John Chinn looked over with a ready barrel. But the red trail led straight as an arrow even to his grandfather's tomb, and there, among the smashed spirit-bottles and the fragments of the mud image, the life left, with a flurry and a grunt. "If my worthy ancestor could see that," said John Chinn, "he'd have been proud of me. Eyes, lower jaw, and lungs. A very nice shot."
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