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The man whom Miss Cranston had recognized as Hedley was smoking a cigarette and calmly drinking a whisky-and-soda. Afterwards I walked to the door and saw that the car was turned towards London, a reassuring fact which I reported to my companions. "Then he's going away from Frenbury, and won't be at home to-night!" cried the American girl gleefully.
Julian had been asked and had refused; and, as for Malim, I shrank from exposing my absurd compositions to his critical eye. A man who could deal so trenchantly over a pipe and a whisky-and-soda with Established Reputations would hardly take kindly to seeing my work in print under his name. I wished it had been possible to secure him, but I did not disguise it from myself that it was not.
At one o'clock it would all be over, and Wallace, carrying a glass of whisky-and-soda to his room, would be undressing between violent yawns and amused recollections. "Some of that comes to me, Wallie. I have the rent coming this week!" "Sure. Take all you want, old girl. You're tired, aren't you?" "Tired and cold." Martie's circulation was not good now, and she knew why.
The "Choicest Flowers" vied with one another in assurances of their distinguished approval. Indeed, they were all crazy about it except the grand duke. Blakely said the grand duke was bored to death, and that he had led him off to the bar and given him a whisky-and-soda out of sheer pity.
He was deep in an arm-chair, with his legs stuck up on the seat of another, and he was blowing rather agitated puffs of smoke into the room from an expensive cigar, for which he had not paid. Costin was mixing a whisky-and-soda at the table, and just for an instant the syphon jerked, sending a stream of soda-water over the cloth. "Yes, sir; certainly, sir; to to Miss Farrow, I presoom, sir."
This way of looking at Augusta Goold's patriotism was new to Hyacinth, and he resented it. 'I suppose she believes in the principles she professes, he said. The Captain looked at him curiously, and then took a drink of his whisky-and-soda. 'Well, he said, 'let's suppose she does. After all, her motives are nothing to us, and she's a damned fine woman, whatever she does it for. He drank again.
His tall friend was drinking a whisky-and-soda in the smoke-room and talking with a somewhat bored expression to no less a person than Jenks of the A.S.C. Peter greeted them. "Hullo!" he said to the latter. "Fancy meeting you here again. Don't say you're going to lecture as well?" "The good God preserve us!" exclaimed Jenks blasphemously. "But I am off in your train to Boulogne.
Carnehan is sober, and so am I. Look at us first, and see that's sure. It will save you cutting into my talk. We'll take one of your cigars apiece, and you shall see us light up." I watched the test. The men were absolutely sober, so I gave them each a tepid whisky-and-soda. "Well and good," said Carnehan of the eyebrows, wiping the froth from his moustache. "Let me talk now, Dan.
Idly his pen traced upon the paper in front of him a large X, the sign of the unknown quantity. But how, in this case, to find out what was the unknown quantity? His hand, his firm and steady hand, shook so that he could no longer hold his pen. He rang the bell again and ordered a stiff whisky-and-soda. He was a man of almost ascetic habits, but to-night he felt that he needed some stimulant.
Herding bullocks, all day long, on the arid plains of Central Australia, he used to keep up his spirits by thinking of that first whisky-and-soda which he would order from a respectful waiter as he entered his club.
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