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But the Bravi exchanged glances which meant that they were perplexed by the undeniable fact that they were beginning to like the musician, quite apart from their admiration for his genius. Before supper they consulted together in the privacy of Trombin's room over a thimbleful of Greek mastic, which they drank as an appetiser.

We have seen a drop of wine, a cup of coffee, or a thimbleful of liqueur, call up a smile to the most Hippocratic face. Those severe prescribers must, moreover, know very well that their prescriptions remain almost always without result.

Dan Brown left en there yesterday as a return for the little porker I gied en. When they had all had a thimbleful round, and the superfluous neighbours had reluctantly departed, one by one, the inmates gave their minds to the supper, which David had begun to serve up. 'What be you rolling back the tablecloth for, David? said the miller.

A mere thimbleful will do; but I rather think I have caught cold during the snowstorm to-day." Robert went on sketching stolidly in his folding book, but Laura looked up from her work. "I'm afraid there is nothing in the house, father," she said. "Laura! Laura!" He shook his head as one more in sorrow than in anger.

Should Joe have a fresh attack of ague he could join Yusuf at the cafe and forget it in the thimbleful that cheers but does not inebriate. With the setting up of my tripod and umbrella and the opening of my color-box a crowd began to gather market people, fruit-sellers, peddlers, scribes, and soldiers. Then a shrill voice rang out from one of the minarets calling the people to prayer.

The pore woman's dead, and you can't bring her to life, and you may as well sit down comfortable, and finish another with us." "I don't mind taking just the least thimbleful ye can dream of more with ye, sonnies. But only a few minutes, because 'tis as 'tis." "Of course, you'll have another drop. A man's twice the man afterwards.

"And so you see 'twas beautiful ale, and I wished to value his kindness as much as I could, and not to be so ill-mannered as to drink only a thimbleful, which would have been insulting the man's generosity " "True, Master Coggan, 'twould so," corroborated Mark Clark.

Miss Eyester resented the aspersion the meaning of which was now plain to everybody, and said with dignity, rising: "If no one else will call him, I shall." "Rum has been the curse of the nation," observed Mr. Budlong to whom even a thimbleful gave a headache. "I wish I had a barrel of it," growled old Mr. Penrose. "When I get home I'm going to get me a worm and make moonshine."

He has seen there things that would be almost incredible at this present age: liquor sold to the Indians measured with a woman's thimble, a thimbleful for one dollar; one wooden coarse comb for two beaver skins; a double handful of salt for one beaver skin and so on in proportion in everything else; the poor Indian had to give pile upon pile of beaver skins, which might be worth two or three hundred dollars, for a few yards of flimsy cloth.

"I think, now that the thimble is found, if he begs pardon, papa will forgive him." "Tommy, come here," said Mr Seagrave. "Tell me why you put that thimble into the soup?" "I wanted to taste the soup. I wanted to fill the thimble; the soup burnt my fingers, and I let the thimble drop in." "Well, a thimbleful wasn't much, at all events," observed Ready.