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"Anything is medicine that a doctor prescribes, even if it's only sugar-and-water." "But there ain't a doctor into camp," objected Keno, hauling at his sleeves. "And the one they had in Bullionville has went away, and he was fifty miles from here." "I know," said Jim. "You don't think he's sick?" inquired Keno, anxiously.
"Sugar-and-water for a man of your age! There! mix your sickly mess. You foreigners are all alike." "Now listen, Percival. I will put our position plainly before you, as I understand it, and you shall say if I am right or wrong. You and I both came back to this house from the Continent with our affairs very seriously embarrassed " "Cut it short!
"Do you want to see me very sweet, and giving you sugar-and-water, and petting you in my house, this very evening, old monster?" "You shall break my heart!" "Break your heart you mean bore you," she went on. "Well, bring me Lucien that I may invite him to our Belshazzar's feast, and you may be sure he will not fail to come.
Speak, my friend and pardon me if I shock your fiery national tastes by mixing myself a second glass of sugar-and-water." "It's very well to say speak," replied Sir Percival, in a far more quiet and more polite tone than he had yet adopted, "but it's not so easy to know how to begin." "Shall I help you?" suggested the Count. "Shall I give this private difficulty of yours a name?
Whether sugar-and-water was the best food for a starving man she knew not, but she did know at least she thought that the starvation ought to be checked without delay. "Here, Mr Brixton, sip a little of this," she said, going down on her knees, and putting a tin mug to the patient's mouth. Poor Tom would have sipped prussic acid cheerfully from her hand! He obeyed, and seemed to like it.
Of course, it was impossible to furnish them with honeysuckles enough for food; and sugar-and-water was tried, which they seemed to relish very well. One day, however, when E was out of the room, one of the little creatures was too greedy in the saucer; and, when E returned, she found it lying on its side, with its wings stuck to its body and its whole little person clammy with sugar.
See them; judge for yourself; and, rest assured, you will be satisfied." "I do not much like having to do with committees," said the general. "However, let it be as you like I will see them." "I had better just announce your arrival," said Perroni. "And will you not take something, my general after your travel you must be wearied." "A glass of sugar-and-water. You know, I am not easily tired.
"Those who're thirsty are thirsty, and those who aren't thirsty aren't thirsty," remarked My-Boots. "Therefore, we'll order the punch. No one need take offence. The aristocrats can drink sugar-and-water." And as the zinc-worker commenced another sermon, the other, who had risen on his legs, gave himself a slap, exclaiming: "Come, let's have no more of that, my boy!
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