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You don't understand that, do you, Anastasia? You don't understand how when one is acutely miserable one remembers that at the bottom of a wineglass or even at the bottom of a tumbler of gin, one may come upon happiness, or at least upon acquiescence to whatever the niggling gods may send.
But there was nothing in Evadne's manner indicative of the former influence; and as to the latter, the only use she ever made of a wineglass was to put her gloves in it. As I gathered up the reins to drive my dogcart home that afternoon I was conscious of an impression on my mind as of a yawn.
Squire Gregory doubted it, and sipped and kept his nose at his wineglass, crabbedly repeating his doubts of it. The captain then remarked, that doubting it, his conscience permitted him to use stratagems, though he, the captain, not doubting it, had no such permission. 'I count I run away with her every night of my life, said Squire Gregory. 'Nothing comes of it but empty bottles.
The tale had become almost a fabliau, but any one who reads the amusing chapter will see that it is based on a belief in disturbances like those familiar to Glanvill and the Misses Fox. 'At dinner, when he would lay his hand on a trencher, it was carried off elsewhere, and the wineglass, when he was about drinking, was snatched from his hand. So Mr.
The Dragon was much annoyed, and hummed and hawed a good deal, and asked the second, 'But what shall be your spoon? 'The rib of a whale shall be our silver spoon. The Dragon-made a face, and growled again three times, 'Hum, hum, hum, and said to the third, 'Do you know what your wineglass shall be? 'An old horse's hoof shall be our wineglass.
Randal can't sing any more than a crow, but I left him with a glass of champagne upside down, trying to give them my old favorite: "'Tis better to laugh than be sighing," and Charlie burst forth in that bacchanalian melody at the top of his voice, waving an allumette holder over his head to represent Randal's inverted wineglass. "Hush!
The ship was lost, a year after, by the disregard of this last warning. When the news reached New York of the massacre of the crew and the blowing-up of the ship, the man who flew into a passion at seeing a little boy drop a wineglass behaved with a composure that was the theme of general admiration. He attended the theatre the same evening, and entered heartily into the play. Mr.
General Longorio fingered his wineglass and stared into it. "I am not like other men. Would to God I were, for then I could close my eyes and forget. You have your great tragedy it is old to you; but mine, dear lady, is just beginning. I can look forward to nothing except unhappiness." He sighed deeply. "I'm sorry you are unhappy," Alaire parried. "Surely you have every pleasant prospect."
She threw a lonely wineglass at the fern-dish and smashed a decanter. Then she pushed off the table about a hundred dollars' worth of chinaware, and kicked her chair over backward. She had been famous for her back-kick in her public dancing-days. She howled to her maid and went into her wardrobe with both hands. She acted like a windmill in a dress-shop.
Ogilvie, have you got any brandy?" Ogilvie rang, and got some brandy, some water, a tumbler, and a wineglass placed on the table. Macleod, with a hand that trembled violently, filled the tumbler half full of brandy. "And she could not deny the story to Mrs. Ross?" said he, with a strange and hard smile on his face. "It was her modesty. Ah, you don't know, Ogilvie, what an exalted soul she has.
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