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Maybe he will now add a little of the Soufi stuff, to improve the taste. At last all is ready, and small pipes are extracted from the folds of the burnous and filled with half a thimbleful of the precious mixture. Two or three whiffs, deeply inhaled, stream out at mouth and nostrils; then the pipe is swiftly passed on to a friend, who drains the last drop of smoke and knocks out the ashes.
But when he had finished his "thimbleful" of tobacco, and shaken out its ashes carefully, he looked at Phyllis with a face full of renewed interest, and said, "Squire, do you know that your niece thinks John Wesley was a High-Churchman?" "What I meant, sir, was this: Wesley had very decided views in favor of the Episcopacy.
He did not seem to be alive all the time; but, on the other hand, he was sometimes a good deal too much alive, and could not bear his potations as well as he used to do, and was overheard blaspheming at himself for being so weakly, and having a brain that could not bear a thimbleful, and growing to be a milksop like Colcord, as he said.
"Bless you! that I will, Mr Dicey," said the good woman, perfectly ready herself to sup off her biscuit and salt butter. She began at once to persuade the young ladies to eat a portion of the delicacies which she had received. She was at length successful. "And now, marm," she added, "just a thimbleful of rum; it will do you good, I'm sure.
I filled it with two-thirds of brandy and the rest water, and he supped it down as if it had been a thimbleful of wine. "By the holy cross," cried he, "but this is very wonderful, though. How long have you been here, sir?" "Three days." "Three days! and I have been in a stupor all that time never moving, never breathing?" "You will have been in a stupor longer than that, I expect," said I.
I'd get a thimbleful of elderberry wine or something about every second Friday, except when I'd duck out the side door of a church and find some caffy. Here, George, foomer, foomer bring us some seegars, and then stay on that spot I may want you." "Well, well!" said Cousin Egbert again, as if the meeting were still incredible. "You old stinging-lizard!" responded the other affectionately.
Champagne was brought when we began drinking toasts. Chinese wine, sam-shoo, is drank hot, from cups holding about a thimbleful. It is very strong, one cup being quite sufficient. The historic Bowery boy drinking a glass of Chinese wine might think he had swallowed a pyrotechnic display on Fourth of July night.
And look here," whispered the colonel, "don't you open your mouth, except to put something into it, till I give you the cue." The dinner was charming, and had suffered little or nothing from the delay. Mrs. Kenton was in raptures with it, and after a thimbleful of the good Hungarian wine had attuned her tongue, she began to sing the praises of the Kaiserin Elisabeth.
And then with pleasant neighbours, or more especially with a pleasant neighbour, the affair is not, according to my taste, by any means the worst phase of society. But I do dislike that handing round, unless it be of a subsidiary thimbleful when the business of the social intercourse has been dinner.
"Well, it's about my farm," she said, and she paused to steady her voice, which seemed to fail her. "I see," Henley said. "Old Welborne is charging you too high interest. You ought to shift the mortgage to somebody more human somebody with at least a thimbleful of soul. That man is the hardest taskmaster on earth. He'd skin a flea for its hide and tallow." "Mortgage?
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