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Then to dinner on a single plain dish and half a tumbler, or by'r lady three-fourths of a tumbler, of whisky and water. Then sit till six o'clock, when enter Mr. Laidlaw again, and work commonly till eight. After this, work usually alone till half-past nine, then sup on porridge and milk, and so to bed. The work is half done.
Now, if he could have gone out of the door on some pretence and run off, down King Street, he would have borne the subsequent shame and humiliation. But he knew that the captain would have been up with him in five strides. So he determined to make the best of it, drank another tumbler of claret, and became almost hysterically eager for the morning.
As I turned to place the tumbler upon a small table the resumed the wordless babbling, and now, with his index finger, pointed to his mouth. "He has lost the power of speech!" whispered Smith. "He was stricken dumb, gentlemen, ten minutes ago," said Beeton in a trembling voice. "He dropped off to sleep out there on the floor, and I brought him in here and laid him on the bed.
Will you have it now? I thanked him and said, 'Yes. Upon which he poured it out of a jug into a large tumbler, and held it up against the light, and made it look beautiful. 'My eye! he said. 'It seems a good deal, don't it? 'It does seem a good deal, I answered with a smile. For it was quite delightful to me, to find him so pleasant.
Conshy has been nudging me for this half hour to hold my tongue regarding Aaron Bang's sea sickness. "It is absolutely indecent," quoth he. "Can't help it, Conshy; no more than the extra tumbler; those who are delicate need not read it; those who are indelicate won't be the worse of it."
Our friends now whiffed and puffed away together whiffing and puffing where whiffing and puffing had never been known before. The brandy began to disappear pretty quickly; it was better than the wine. 'That's a n n nice ish horse of yours, stammered Jack, as he mixed himself a second tumbler. 'Which? asked Sponge. 'The bur bur brown, spluttered Jack.
"What common air?" said Rollo. "Why, the air that was in the tumbler before," replied Jonas. "You see that, as fast as the choke damp comes up, it drives the common air out of the top of the tumbler; and so you must put the paper on loosely, and let it go out." That evening Jonas and Rollo tried the experiment. First they put about two teaspoonfuls of chalk into the tumbler.
He tore away tender portions of roasted lamb with his fingers, and crammed them into his mouth, rejoicing. With the same greasy fingers he put upon Hope's plate a stuffed cucumber, and would have added a clammy sweet and a tumbler of sickly sherbet at the same moment; but Hope ate nothing save a cake of dourha bread, and drank only a cup of coffee.
"Excuse me," she said, with a fluttering sigh, as she sank down into the rustic chair, "I do feel rather faint. It does seem so strange! I I suppose it is because I have had no experience of anything but robust health all my life till now. There I feel better. Will you kindly fetch me a glass of water? You will find a cistern with a tumbler beside it outside."
He had the feeling that he had burned his boats. He was face to face now with realities. There was no sound from anywhere. A bright fire was burning in the grate. An easy-chair was drawn up to the side of a small table, on which was placed a tumbler, some biscuits, a box of cigarettes and some matches.
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