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Updated: June 6, 2025
You always denied it. Ah! so you were in love with some one else? I knew it I knew it was that thick-set fellow with the black moustache. I wonder how you could like him the amount of whisky and water he used to drink." "Yes, usen't he? I have served him with as many as six whiskies in an afternoon Irish, he always drank Irish." "How could you like a man who drank?"
He had not much appetite that day and towards evening he began to feel very unwell. He tried the next remedy he knew, which was to drink two or three hot whiskies, but that did not seem to help him much, and when in the morning he surveyed himself in the glass he thought he was not looking quite the thing. "If I ain't right by the time we get back to Honolulu I'll just give Dr Denby a call.
"Two small whiskies, please," he ordered, having asked his companion's choice. The girl placed the two small tumblers of yellow liquid before her customers and Willis added a little water to each. "Well, here's yours," he said, and raising his glass to his lips, drained the contents at a draught. Captain Beamish did the same.
That is the way I think in the morning. Then I take a glass, or beg one, as I shall from you presently, and then I forget. Once I went out to commit suicide, and took three whiskies to string my nerve up. In two minutes I was laughing at a Punch and Judy show. If you'll kindly order a quartern of gin in a pint glass for me, I'll fill it up and be quite content all the evening. No one ill-uses me.
Here, strange to say, he had never been drunk but once; and that was the night before he married the widow of a local publican, who had a nice little block of stock in one of Ingolby's railways, which yielded her seven per cent., and who knew how to handle the citizens of the City of Booze. When she married Tom Straker, her first husband, he drank on an average twenty whiskies a day.
One curious effect was that, for some time after he left the institution, he'd sometimes feel suddenly in high spirits with nothing to account for it something like he used to feel when he had half a dozen whiskies in him; then suddenly he'd feel depressed and sort of hopeless with nothing to account for that either just as if he was suffering a recovery.
It seemed an excellent idea. The air within was blue with tobacco smoke, flushed henchwomen staggered to and fro with arms spread wide across trays of whiskies and sodas, opening doors revealed rooms full of men, mutton chops and mastication. There was wildness in the eye of the attendant as she took the order for yet another luncheon.
During the evening he had been standing against a bar drinking whiskies and declaring to all comers, confidentially: "My home reg'lar livin' hell! Damndes' place! Reg'lar hell! Why do I come an' drin' whisk' here thish way? 'Cause home reg'lar livin' hell!" Jimmie waited a long time in the street and then crept warily up through the building.
I don't know why I drank so many cocktails that night before dinner, nor so much champagne at dinner, nor so many whiskies afterward. I had neither made a heavy killing at the races, nor met with disaster.
Wingate returned to his rooms at the Milan about eleven o'clock that evening, to find Roger Kendrick, Maurice White and the Honourable Jimmy Wilshaw stretched out in his most comfortable chairs, drinking whiskies and sodas and smoking cigarettes. "Welcome!" he exclaimed, smiling upon them from the threshold. "Are you all here? Is there any one I forgot to invite?"
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