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There are excellent substitutes," he picked up negligently from his desk a small packet that had been sent an advertisement sample to him by the morning's post, and had not yet been disposed of. Miss Bibby wrote on, glowing with fellow-feeling. "In conclusion," he added, "I am a strict teetotaler, and I never smoke."
Keep quiet and don't touch a drop of liquor until you sail, and not a word to anybody." "You needn't be afraid o' the licker," said the sailor grimly. "I shan't touch that for my own sake." "He's a teetotaler," explained the pawnbroker. "He's not," said the seaman indignantly. "Why won't you drink, then?" asked the other man. "Fancy," said the seaman dryly, and closed his mouth.
The boy leaped to his feet and ran away to a safe distance. "Paw!" he called out, 'I'll run back to th' house an' 'phone th' p'lice." "Come on, boys, we'd better dig out!" We straggled along in silent, rolling clusters, like bees smoked out, down the road ... we heard the rumble of a waggon ... when we recognised that it was our teetotaler coming back for us....
"Never known to drink, either, I suppose?" "Cold-water teetotaler," laughed the professor, catching the spirit of the occasion. "Look at the color in that nose!" said the critic. "I fancy that the ascetic moralist " A very young man, an undergraduate who had been introduced as the junior usher, nodded his head. "Yep, a lot of us fellows always thought old Grid a little too good to be true."
A man may be temperate without being a teetotaler; all teetotalers are temperate, at least as far as alcohol is concerned, although they are sometimes, some of them, accused of using temperance as a cloak for much intemperance of speech. If this be true and there are cranks in all causes then temperance is itself the greatest sufferer.
He was strictly temperate during all the time that I knew anything about him, but he was not a teetotaler; I never saw any of the fits of nervous excitement which in his earlier years had done so much to wreck him.
He walked off a little way as the man re-entered the bar. A second or two later, the carman came out alone. "'E ses come inside 'e ses if you want to see 'im." "I can't," said Flower. "Why not?" asked the other, as a horrible suspicion dawned upon him. "Strewth, you ain't a teetotaler, are you?" "No," replied the skipper, "but I can't go in."
"Oh, Rod Pa would explode!" "Darn it," the boy mused, "I don't see WHY. He's not a teetotaler." "Well, I know," Martie conceded. "But that's different, of course! No we can't have punch. I don't know how to make it, anyway " She was hardly following her own words.
Some people have resolved to be teetotalers, and they want a law passed to make everybody else a teetotaler. Some people have resolved to eschew luxury, and they want taxes laid to make others eschew luxury. The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.
He waited a moment, pondering, with the door-knob in his hand, then started out; but turned back and said that I had once been interested in Corrigan Castle, and asked me if I would go with him to his quarters in the evening and take a hot Scotch and talk it over. I was a teetotaler and liked relaxation, so I said I would. We drove from the lecture-hall together about half-past ten.
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