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In a half-drunken satisfaction she stretches her arms out in it and commences to swim towards the horizon. "Like his arms!" she thinks, as the water encircles her. "Like his lips!" she thinks, as it presses on her throat. "And as cold as his nature." The following morning is calm and still a perfect specimen of wintry beauty. A light frost covers the ground and sparkles on the trees.
An inspiration of affection for a half-drunken carter going his way led to Mr Riderhood's being elevated on a high heap of baskets on a waggon, and pursuing his journey recumbent on his back with his head on his bundle. Bradley then turned to retrace his steps, and by-and-by struck off through little-traversed ways, and by-and-by reached school and home.
The Comandante and Roblado could not restrain their dastard spirits from indulging in the luxury of revenge. Having emptied their wine-cups, they, with a party of boon companions, entered the guard prison, and amused themselves by taunting the chained captive. Every insult was put upon him by his half-drunken visitors every rudeness their ingenuity could devise.
Ruth was not naturally timid, but when she suddenly beheld a half-drunken man coming towards her, and observed that no one else was near, something like a flutter of anxiety agitated her breast. At the same moment something like a sledge-hammer blow smote the concave side of John Gunter's bosom. "She's got more than she needs," he growled between his teeth, "an' I've got nothin'!"
Everything which legend or history had recorded of similar deeds was compared with this day's work, and it was agreed that it transcended them all. This delighted the half-drunken monarch. To-day, he declared with flashing eyes, and not till to-day, he had dared to be entirely what Fate had called him to be at once the judge and the executioner of an accursed and degenerate race.
O'Brien's quick eyes surveyed his half-drunken customer with a shrewd, contemptuous speculation. "That sounds like bluff. Hot air never yet beat the p'lice. It needs a darnation clear head, and big acts, to best Fyles. A half-soused bluff ain't worth hell room." Charlie appeared to take no umbrage.
"I thirsted, and I bethought me of this buffet where you keep your wine." He continued to eye me, some six paces off, his half-drunken wits no doubt weighing the plausibility of my answer. At last "If that be all, what cause had you to hide?" he asked me shrewdly. "One of your candles fell over and awakened you," said I. "I feared you might resent my presence, and so I hid."
"Then he has learned something already?" "Oh, that was too easy. Any one can pump a half-drunken sailor." The private inquiry agent spoke confidentially. He fancied he had secured the sort of aide he needed, a spy of superior intelligence. "Suppose I give you that first item of news, what is the figure?" "Say a fiver."
Cold meats, bread, cheese, and crackers, and a bountiful supply of bad whiskey, are spread over a table in the centre of the room; while the pale light of two small lamps, suspended from the ceiling, throws a curious shadow over the repulsive features of thirteen forlorn, ragged, and half-drunken men, sitting here and there round the room, on wooden benches.
Steelman turned his face to him and winked once a very hard, tight, cold wink a wink in which there was no humour: such a wink as Steelman had once winked at a half-drunken bully who was going to have a lark with Smith. The sharper was one of those men who pull themselves together in a bad cause, as they stagger from the blow. But he wanted to think this time.
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