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Fleete began the night with sherry and bitters, drank champagne steadily up to dessert, then raw, rasping Capri with all the strength of whisky, took Benedictine with his coffee, four or five whiskies and sodas to improve his pool strokes, beer and bones at half-past two, winding up with old brandy.
"The fellow was given an opportunity of making a clean breast of it, of course Wensley, his lawyer, advised him to, in fact but the story he told me was precisely the story he told at the inquest." They were established now in their easy-chairs, and Wilmore summoned a waiter. "Two large whiskies and sodas," he ordered.
You wouldn't be undressed, so we had to tuck you away as you were some chaps helped to bring you here." "You beggar!" growled Jack. "You look as fresh as a new penny." "Two whiskies is my limit, old boy I don't go beyond it. And I had a page black-and-white to do to-day. Stir yourself, and we'll have breakfast. The kettle is boiling. Wait I'll bring you a pick-me-up."
He watched her leave the room in the hope that she would look back at him, but he was disappointed. He cursed his want of money and cursed all the rounds he had stood, particularly all the whiskies and Apolinaris which he had stood to Weathers. If there was one thing that he hated it was a sponge. He was so angry that he lost count of the conversation of his friends.
The prints and lithographs of ships had gone from the walls, and were replaced by real pictures converted to the advertisement of various whiskies pictures of battleships, bull-dogs, Scotsmen, and figures in armour tempted from their ancient posts in baronial halls, after midnight, to finish the precious drink forgotten by the guests.
In his rich Scotch accent he could discuss with equal ability the flavour of whisky or of a sermon, and he had more than sufficient tact never to discuss either whiskies or sermons in the wrong place. He was thirty-five years of age, tall and stoutish, with a chubby boyish face that the razor left chiefly blue every morning. The immediate effect of his arrival on Constance was miraculous.
To avoid seeing his beloved wife playing the part of his servant, Mr. Blackwood had taken rooms in a boarding house. The wife, who had nothing whatever to do, spent the day in playing billiards and practising the piano, and half the night in discussing Women's Rights and drinking whiskies and sodas. The husband had a salary of five thousand dollars.
The train started after the manner of French trains told off for the use of British soldiers, and Jenks collapsed on the seat. "Damned near thing that!" he said unsteadily; "might have missed the bloody boat! I saw my little bit, though. She's a jolly good sort, she is. Blasted strong stuff that French brandy, though! Whiskies at the club first, yer know.
They were not especially clever to-night, thought Olva, as he sat in the shadow away from the light of the fire and watched them sitting back in enormous armchairs, with their legs stretched out, blowing wreaths of smoke into the air, drinking whiskies and sodas . . . no, not clever. Craven, the shadows blacker than ever under his eyes, was on the opposite side of the room from Olva.
There were those who said that if Tom's whiskies hadn't been cut down so but there it was: Tom was in the bosom of Abraham, and William Jones, who was never called anything else than Willy Welsh, had been cut down from his unrecorded bibulations to none at all; but he smoked twenty-cent cigars at the ex-widow's expense.
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