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"Neither me!" he said shortly, after a pause. "You're a teetotaller too?" I showed a little involuntary astonishment. He put forward his chin. "What do you think?" he said confidentially and scornfully. It was precisely as if he had said: "Do you think that anybody but a born ass would not be a teetotaller, in my position?" I sat down on a chair.
He held up a hand as though taking an oath. "Name of God, is it not enough what there has been?" whispered the little Clerk. "Oh, as you think, and as you say! It is quite enough for me after to-day. I'm a teetotaller, but I'm not so fond of water as to want to take my eternal bath in it." He shuddered slightly. "Bien sur, I've had my fill of the Manor Cartier for one day, my Clerk of the Court."
"Now, what do you mean by that?" presently he asked. "Well, I mean so good that you're a teetotaller, or so bad that you're tired o' life an' whisky." Johnson shook his head. "On the contrary, although I'm not good, I've lived and I've liked life pretty well. It's been bully!"
"That's a bit orkard," ses Sam, scratching his 'ead. "Same time, it don't do to throw away a chance. If 'e was my uncle I should pretend to be a teetotaller while 'e was here, just to please 'im." "And when you felt like a drink, Peter," ses Ginger, "me and Sam would look arter 'im while you slipped off to get it." "He could 'ave the room below us," ses Sam. "It is empty." Peter gave a sniff.
The new Vicar is a teetotaller, miss, and a magistrate, and his wife has a deal of receipts for economical cooking, and is for making bread without yeast; and they both talk so much, and both at a time, that they knock one down as it were, and it's not till they're gone, and one's a little at peace, that one can think that there were things one might have said on one's own side of the question.
It doesn't look much like it at present." "Take the case of this woman." "Yes," said Hilary, "take her case. You can't make this too clear to me, Martin." "She's no use poor sort altogether. The man's no use. A man who's been wounded in the head, and isn't a teetotaller, is done for. The girl's no use regular pleasure-loving type!"
He uttered a deep groan, rubbed his eyes, emitted a yell, wheeled round and galloped for dear life, with a cry, nay a scream, of "I've got 'em at last," followed by his utterly bewildered but ever-faithful Brigade-Major, who had seen nothing but foliage, scrub, and cactus. To Gungapur the General galloped without drawing rein, took to his bed, sent for surgeon and priest and became a teetotaller.
It was my car-driver, a teetotaller, opined on this "boreen," that the irreconcilable tenant, one Thomas Browne, dwelt. There were doubts in his mind; but, nevertheless, we turned on to the wretched track, and tried to get the car over the stones and mud-lakes which formed it.
Though a strict teetotaller, he passed hours at public houses, especially in the evenings, listening to the talk of the port. It was all about the disaster in the South Seas, the heavy casualties suffered by the Three Towns, and the rotten ill-luck of the avenging battle-cruisers running upon the German mines.
He pays his rent to the tick; he is practically a teetotaller; he is tirelessly kind with the younger children, and can keep them amused for a day on end; and, last and most urgent of all, he has made himself equally popular with the eldest daughter, who is ready to go to church with him tomorrow."
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