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"I remember," Dixie answered, "and you both swigged so much at supper to make up for it that you wanted to talk all night. Oh, you two are a funny lot! But you've got to wait this time, sure. I'm going to feed these things and stop their noise." She had reference to half a hundred fowls, young and old, that were squawking loudly and fluttering on the steps and even the porch floor.
"I wonder what that son o' Gourlay's 'ull come till," said Sandy Toddle, musing on him with the character-reading eye of the Scots peasant. "To no good you may be sure of that," said ex-Provost Connal. "He's a regular splurge! When Drunk Dan Kennedy passed him his flask in the train the other day he swigged it, just for the sake of showing off. And he's a coward, too, for all his swagger.
Her voice indicated great stubbornness. "Good, good, you have done your very duty, Madame," said Pere Beret, with immense approval in his charming voice. "But, Father, you said awhile ago that I should have my own way about this," Alice spoke up with spirit; "and on the strength of that remark of yours I gave you the pie and wine. You've eaten my pie and swigged the wine, and now "
But I ain't a damn' bit afraid to say I could lick a half dozen of these here hicks that used to have a reputation in these parts. Fairy tales; that's wot they are!" He swigged his drink and sucked in his breath with vast self-satisfaction. The other man, of a leaner, quieter, but just as villainous a type, grinned at him. "Oh, I don't know," he said.
Stryker swigged off his rum and wiped his lips with the back of a red paw, hesitating a moment to watch his guest. "Mykes it seem more 'ome-like for you, I expect," he observed. "What do you mean?" "W'y, Bradshaw's first-cousin to a halmanack, ain't 'e? Can't get one, take t'other next best thing.
The claret was beastly not fit for a gentleman to drink! He swigged off a great bumper as he was making the remark: for Barnes Newcome abuses the men and things which he uses, and perhaps is better served than more grateful persons. "Count!" cries Warrington, "what do you mean by talking about beggarly counts? Florac's family is one of the noblest and most ancient in Europe.
Bullwig having concluded this spitch, very much to his own sattasfackshn, looked round to the compny for aplaws, and then swigged off the glass of brandy-and-water, giving a sollum sigh as he took the last gulph; and then Doctor Ignatius, who longed for a chans, and, in order to show his independence, began flatly contradicting his friend, addressed me, and the rest of the genlmn present, in the following manner:
"There's that squaw sittin' there," he said, "she's bin an' swigged three pannikins o' tea while I've bin looking at her an' it's as black as ink. What's that brown stuff they put into it, does any one know?" "That? Why, it is maple sugar," answered Archie, "an' capital stuff it is to eat too."
We both looked at each other again, and while we looked he swigged off his drink and helped himself, just as generously, to more. And, as I was getting bolder by that time, I set to work at questioning him. "You'll be attaching some importance to what you saw?" said I.
Should you display the least talent for that we may see later if you've any knack with a putty knife. "The new hand had brought no lunch with him, but his father spared him a few scraps from his own, and they all swigged beer from a pail of it they sent out for. So the scandal was now complete in all its details.
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