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"But I had this bottle given me, and luckily you've come while there's a drop left. Very glad you have! Very glad you have." Here he poked a little table through the window, and put a bottle and two glasses, one a tooth-glass, upon it. Then he withdrew again to finish shaving. The waiter presently hobbled up with the syphon and third glass.
So he stood up, and squared his shoulders and tried to look noble, like the boys in books that no one can look in the face of and doubt that they come of brave and noble families and will be faithful to the death, and he pulled out the soda-water syphon and said: 'Well, there you are, then. There was a silence.
But one thing you can't imagine, and that is how soda-water behaves when you try to drink it straight out of a syphon especially a quite full one. But if imagination will not help you, experience will, and you can easily try it for yourself if you can get a grown-up to give you the syphon.
There was the sound of the withdrawal of a cork, the fizz of a sodawater syphon. He returned to his place a different man. "You must remember my age, Elizabeth dear," he said, apologetically. "I haven't your nerve it isn't likely that I should have. When I was twenty-five, there was nothing in the world of which I was afraid." She looked him over critically.
I dared not open my eyes, but in a restless movement, which I felt I might safely make, I raised my hand to shield me, and caught a momentary glimpse of the person who was standing between me and the door. As I expected, it was Louis! He held the soda-water syphon in his hand, as though measuring its contents. I believe that he afterwards came and stood over me.
'Let her cry, said Robert desperately; 'if she howls loud enough, someone may hear and come and let us out. 'And see the soda-water thing, said Anthea swiftly. 'Robert, don't be a brute. Oh, Jane, do try to be a man! It's just the same for all of us. Jane did try to 'be a man' and reduced her howls to sniffs. There was a pause. Then Cyril said slowly, 'Look here. We must risk that syphon.
When he discovered that their talk was of the iniquities of the National Board of Education, and therefore likely to last beyond midnight, Captain Quinn led the way into the smoking-room, which was unoccupied. A sufficient supply of whisky and a syphon of soda-water were set before them. The Captain stretched himself in a comfortable chair, and lit his pipe.
He came back from the window, turned up the lights, drew forward an armchair and motioned Smyth to be seated; fetched a cut-glass spirit decanter, tumblers, and a syphon of soda from the sideboard and set them at his guest's elbow. "Pray help yourself," he said. "And here, will you not smoke while we talk?"
I paused, my hand on the syphon, reflecting for a moment. "Two months ago," I said; "he's a poor correspondent and rather soured, I fancy." "What a woman or something?" "Some affair of that sort. He's such a reticent beggar, I really know very little about it." I placed a whisky and soda before the Rev. J. D. Eltham, also sliding the tobacco jar nearer to his hand.
He was also proud of not taking the custard pudding, and there I think he was wrong, because if he had taken it there would have been a difficulty about returning the dish; no one, however starving, has a right to steal china pie-dishes with little pink flowers on them. The soda-water syphon was different.
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