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His paper currency was coming back to him. "It's a shame," grumbled Cranley, "to rob a fellow of his fetich. Waiter, a small brandy-and-soda! Confound your awkwardness! Why do you spill it over the cards?" By Cranley's own awkwardness, more than the waiter's, a little splash of the liquid had fallen in front of him, on the black leather part of the table where he dealt.
"Well, anyway," he said recklessly, "I'll jolly well go downstairs and have a brandy-and-soda!" Albert finished untying the sheet from the bedpost, and stuffed it under the pillow. "And now," said Albert, "for a quiet smoke in the scullery." These massive minds require their moments of relaxation. George's idea was to get home. Quick.
In his own particular way he seems to be enjoyin' this yachtin' trip huge, just loafin' around elegant in his white flannels, smokin' cigarettes continual, soppin' up brandy-and-soda at reg'lar intervals, and entertainin' Mr. Ellins with his batty remarks.
"I was out of sorts," he said, "and so d d hippish I didn't know what I was about." "Brandy-and-soda!" suggested Lopez. "Perhaps a little of that; though, by Jove, it isn't often I do that kind of thing. I don't know a fellow who works harder for his wife and children than I do.
Oscarovitch and Phadrig went back after the lecture to the Prince's flat in Royal Court Mansions, which, as a bachelor and a bird of passage, he found much more convenient in many ways than a house. He ordered his Russian servant to make coffee for his guest, and mixed a stiff brandy-and-soda for himself. He wanted it, for the experiences of the evening had shaken even his nerves not a little.
'And didn't ums know the sea was salt, and did ums think it very nasty, and not half as nice as a brandy-and-soda? Kate watched him for a moment, and then her face clouded, and pouting her pretty lips, she said: 'Of course I don't pretend to be as clever as you, but if you'd never seen the sea until a week ago you might forget.
Sheldon was becoming expansive under the influence of the brandy-and-soda; for even that mild beverage is not without its effect on the intellectual man.
"She is very good; but all wives promise that kind of thing before marriage. And there is apt to come a day when the familiar bachelor friend falls under the domestic taboo, together with smoking in the drawing-room, brandy-and-soda, and other luxuries of the old, easy-going, single life." "Marian is not very likely to prove a domestic tyrant.
Here, take this, please, and she hands me this very identical letter which I've just shown you, Tom. And married she was the very next day." "It wasn't your fault, anyway, Sam," observed Mr. Craig, as he drank off his brandy-and-soda.
That healing realization came to me, bringing such a gladness as no words of mine can express nor convey. Still we ran on. "There's a policeman's lantern," panted my companion. "They'll attempt nothing, now!" I gulped down the stiff brandy-and-soda, then glanced across to where Nayland Smith lay extended in the long, cane chair.
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