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"How very said," said Mr. Dixon. "A little port, my dear?" "Thank you, Merivale, I will have another glass of sherry. Dr. Burrows is always scolding me and saying I must take something to keep up my energy, and this sherry is so weak." The Dixons were not teetotalers. They regretted it deeply, and blamed the doctor, who "insisted on some stimulant."
"Phyllis," he added solemnly, "an Irish teetotaler is a fearful thing." "You shall forget all the intemperate teetotalers in a beautiful sleep," said she, putting her arms around his neck. "Good-night, papa! It was so thoughtless of me to keep you up. It is one o'clock." "It appears to me that you are the one who should be ready to succumb," said her father.
Brethren, if you would cheat the Devil, take the pledge and become teetotalers. I am a teetotaller myself, thank God though once I was a regular lushington."
"This comes o' listening to a parcel o' teetotalers," 'e ses, very cross, when 'e found that Peter 'ad spent all 'is money too. "Here we are just beginning the evening and not a farthing in our pockets." They went off 'ome in a very bad temper.
If, by a crusade of temperance pure and simple, you made teetotalers of the mass of low-skilled workers, their wages would indisputably fall, although they might be more competent workers than before.
I am nearly twenty-three now, and if I want a glass of beer surely I can have it. You don't mean to say that everybody but teetotalers are going to the bad." "You know very well what I mean, Tom. You are not the kind of young man you were, and either you give up these things or we part company." "Nay, Alice, doan't be narrow-minded.
The cherubic tones of Stumpy emanated from somewhere. "Wot I say is, respect a man's principles. Any teetotalers about yere wot wants to find a 'appy 'ome for their rum ration? Wot I say is, respe yes, yere I am, old son, pass the sinful liquor over." Half an hour later he warbled a jumbled melody: "In Ari Arizona. It's there a girl in Ari Ari...."
Courtland. "You don't know how I've been abused during the past fortnight, indeed you don't," moaned Lord Earlscourt. "Why, there's my own wife, she abused me like a cab-driver because George Holland had been with us on the platform when the Chinese teetotalers came here to protest against the public houses in England; she says that his backsliding will put back the cause a quarter of a century.
I also know that there's a set o' men in this world who look upon teetotalers as very soft chaps old wives, in fact.
It had no real life in it; it had nothing of the fullness and breadth of the matters that interested such people as had minds imagination. "You are tired," she cried at last. "It is thoughtless of me to keep you out of your bed. You have had a weary night, I am sure. Was it the Irish again, or the horrid teetotalers?" "It was both, my dear," said he.
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