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"That don't matter much there's plenty of time," Clark replied hastily. And in a few minutes he remarked gruffly, "Say, I don't want you to think I was goin' up to 'Frisco on a tear." "I didn't think so!" She realized then that Clark had not left the place all these ten days since the fire. "I'm goin' to cut out the booze, now there's something else for excitement," he added. "That's good!"
But no legislation can daunt us: The drinks that we knew never die: Their spirits will come back to haunt us And whimper and hover near by. The spookists insist that communion Exists with the souls that we lose And so we may count on reunion With all that's immortal of Booze.
Food she could steal and did, blithely enough, since she had no monitor but the lure of brightness and that Thing within her breast that hotly justified the theft and only urged her on. But booze was a very different proposition. It was impossible to steal booze even a little. To secure booze she was forced to offer money.
The morning that the little sea-port of Newcastle lay before us, I felt as if I had been on tour through a strange world. For the first time the story-books of my youth had come true. But Hoppner rose from the camp fire that we'd been sleeping by, stretched, and remarked, "now, thank Christ, I'll be able to find a good seat in a pub again, just like in Sydney, and all the booze I can drink.
Why, if the Abbé Bruneau doled out comfort and absolution at Entrammes why should he not enjoy at Laval the wilder joys of the flesh? Lack of money was the only hindrance, since our priest was not of those who could pursue bonnes fortunes; ever he sighed for 'booze and the blowens, but 'booze and the blowens' he could only purchase with the sovereigns his honest calling denied him.
You see the race am so mighty close, that all the booze bosses is a telling the niggers that they is got the 'ballunce uf power' as they calls it and it's up ter them ter elect a jedge fer whisky, the friend 'at'll let 'em drink it down.
"We're wid 'Cold Steel' Weir, our boss, four hundred of us, till ye can skate on hell," a huge Irishman, one of half a dozen standing at Vorse's bar on Saturday night, remarked when the saloon-man uttered a sneer at the manager. "Say that agin and we'll tear your rotten booze joint to pieces and make ye eat it!
The young man threw back his head and drew in a long breath as if he were trying to focus in one desire all the aspirations of his thirsty soul, which now he could satisfy. "I'll take a suite at the Palace and have the best booze money can buy!" he said with a careless laugh. "No, don't do that!" Adelle protested earnestly, thinking of Archie. "You won't get much out of your money that way."
The drug stores did a thriving business in the sale of spiritus frumenti for "snake bite" and "stomach trouble," which seemed to be prevalent and epidemic throughout the community. Saturday was market day for the farmers who lived in the adjoining countryside ... and the livery stables where they put up their horses were also resorts for gambling and the selling of "bootleg" booze....
"Free booze, free speech, free press!" "You're on, Doc! You're on." "He's turned the trick," growled Dr. Elliot to Hal. "He's a smooth one!" Indeed, the crowd wavered, with that peculiar swaying which presages a general movement. At the south end there was a particularly dense gathering, and there some minor struggle seemed to be in progress. Cries rose: "Let him through." "What's he want?"
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