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Updated: May 6, 2025
Reggie was pouring out whiskies and sodas, two strong ones. Geoffrey gulped down his drink, and then proceeded with his lamentation: "I understand it all now. Everybody knew. The secrecy and the mystery. Even at my wedding they were saying, 'Don't go to Japan, don't go. They must have all known even then.
They drink my whiskies, smoke my cigars, and dub me an old Mick behind my back. They run around with silly chorus-girls and play poker till sun-up, and never do an honest day's work. It takes a brave man to come to me and frankly say that he has insulted my daughter." "He said that?" Behind her lips Kitty was already smiling. "You are acting very strangely, dad." "I know.
I'd had a bottle of champagne, and being all alone, perhaps two or three perhaps even four or five whiskies, so I was as solid as rocks and no more frightened than if I'd been assailed by a frog. 'Boo! I said. 'Nonsense. You don't belong to THIS place. What are you doing here? "I could see him wince. 'Boo-oo, he said. "'Boo be hanged!
Many a one allowed a finger to be amputated without a word, and as chloroform is expensive the surgeon often replaced it with a long draught of mescal or tequila, the native whiskies. Outwardly the peons were very deferential to white men. I could rarely get a sentence from them, though they chattered much among themselves, with a constant sprinkling of obscenity.
Your heads touch the pillow, and off you go. Do you know that the man is waiting for you to take your coffee?" Norgate lay quite still for several moments. Beyond a slight headache, he was feeling as usual. He leaned over the side of the bunk. "How many whiskies and soda did I have last night?" he asked. Herr Selingman smiled. "But one only," he announced. "There was only one to be had.
Kemp into the bar of the hotel they reached, and the elder man, after an inquiring glance at his companion, ordered two whiskies. "Kincher" added water to the contents of each glass, and, lifting his glass in his right hand, waited until Fred had done the same and then said: "Well, here's luck and long life to the man that did it whoever he is."
It cost me three or four whiskies for I felt I didn't want any more beer, which is a thing that easily upsets me but at length I found just the crowd I wanted a quiet domestic-looking set in a homely little place off the Goswell Road. "I explained my views to the landlord. He said he had no objection; he supposed I would stand drinks round afterwards.
"Come," he said, "you shall stand me a drink. Two whiskies and sodas, Tim. And now, Mr. Leonard Tavernake, you are going to answer me a question." "Am I?" Tavernake muttered. "You came down in the lift with Mrs. Wenham Gardner half an hour ago, you went into the restaurant and ordered supper. She is there still and you are here. Have you quarreled?" "No, we did not quarrel," Tavernake answered.
When this procession of lumbering vehicles, placarded with advertisements of teas, tobaccos, whiskies, and current theatrical attractions and bearing the signs "Bank," "Holborn," "Piccadilly," "Shepherd's Bush," "Strand," rumbled through the streets of Antwerp, the populace went mad. "The British had come at last! The city was saved! Vive les Anglais! Vive Tommy Atkins!"
Maybe the working woman, looking for a husband, and not merely a livelihood, may end by formulating standards of her own. She may end by demanding the manly man and moving about the world, knowing something of life, may arrive at the conclusion that something more is needed than the smoking of pipes and the drinking of whiskies and sodas. We must be prepared for this.
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