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Nay, can she answer for it that the lemon which Professor Allen, from the best and purest of motives, has blended with this milk-punch, shall not disagree with me to-morrow morning? Can chemistry, Count Fosco, thus thwart malign constitutional tendency?" These were your words, sir, and I am now ready to answer your deep- searching question in the affirmative.
Here is Jack moaning with despair and Byronic misanthropy, whose career at the university was one of unmixed milk-punch. Here is Tom's daring Essay in defence of suicide and of republicanism in general, apropos of the death of Roland and the Girondins Tom's, who wears the starchest tie in all the diocese, and would go to Smithfield rather than eat a beefsteak on a Friday in Lent.
A little way from the summit was a tarn, or mountain-pool, supplied through concealed tubes with an inexhaustible flow of milk-punch, which, dashing in cascades down the miniature rocks, fell into the more capacious lake below, washing the mimic foundations of Headlong Hall.
He never tired of recalling the days when he supped at midnight on milk-punch and roast turkey, drank tea in floods at an hour when older men are intent upon anything rather than on the means of keeping themselves awake, and made little of sitting over the fire till the bell rang for morning chapel in order to see a friend off by the early coach.
"What! you! Is it possible, my dear fellow? how glad I am to see you! What on earth can bring you to such a place? No! not a soul would believe me if I said I had seen you in this miserable hole." "That is precisely the reason why I am here. Sit down, Caleb, and we'll talk over matters as soon as our landlord has brought up the materials for " "The milk-punch," interrupted Mr.
We tried to ride him off quietly apologies and so forth but it was the milk-punch and mayonnaise that defeated us. 'Yes, he wasn't taking anything except pure revenge, said Eames. 'He said he'd make an example of the regiment, and he was particularly glad that he'd landed our Colonel. He told us so. Old Dhurrah-bags don't sympathise with Wontner's tactical lectures.
'What is it? inquired Ben Allen carelessly. 'I don't know, replied Mr. Pickwick, with equal carelessness. 'It smells, I think, like milk-punch. 'Oh, indeed? said Ben. 'I THINK so, rejoined Mr. Pickwick, very properly guarding himself against the possibility of stating an untruth; 'mind, I could not undertake to say certainly, without tasting it.
'This beats milk-punch and mayonnaise. 'Oh, why didn't we think of these things when we had him at our mercy? Eames wailed. 'Never mind we'll try it on the next chap. You've a mind, Claus. 'Now we'll call on 'em at Mess, said Wontner, as they minced towards the door. 'I think I'll call on your Colonel, said Stalky. 'He oughtn't to miss this. Your first attempt?
'The very thing that occurred to me, said Ben Allen. 'Is it, indeed? rejoined Mr. Pickwick. 'Then here's his health! With these words, that excellent person took a most energetic pull at the bottle, and handed it to Ben Allen, who was not slow to imitate his example. The smiles became mutual, and the milk-punch was gradually and cheerfully disposed of. 'After all, said Mr.
I first met him driving home from cutcherry in his buggy. He was a fat man in the early afternoon of life. In his blue eyes lay the mystery of many a secret salad and unwritten milk-punch; but though he smoked the longest cheroots of Trichinopoly and Dindigul, his hand was still steady and still grasped a cue or a long tumbler, with the unerring certainty of early youth and unshaken health.
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