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"Take the position of soldiers, you slouching clodhoppers," he said, with an assortment of oaths, as the squad entered the office. "One'd think you a passel o' hawbucks half-drunk at a log-rollin', instead o' soldiers in the presence o' your superior officer.
There were not many to stand beside the open grave, for few in Sheridan knew the lad, and funerals were not uncommon some cronies, half-drunk and maudlin, awed somewhat by the presence of the marshal, Doctor Fairbain, Keith, and Hope. That was all excepting the post chaplain from Fort Hays, who, inspired by a glimpse of the girl's unveiled face, spoke simple words of comfort.
Then I says, 'My festive gent, if you THINK of thet move again you'll be stiff before you start it. ... Guess he believed me." Larry paused in his narrative, wiped his face, and moistened his lips. Evidently he was considerably shaken. "Well, go on," said Neale, impatiently, "Thet was all right so far as it went," resumed Larry. "But the pard of Cordy's he was half-drunk an' a big brag, anyhow.
Then there was amazing stir at the sleepy little posts on the great river. Painted savages, howling and screeching, mostly half-drunk, swarmed about the stations, and at night the sky was red with the glare of their fires.
The vagabond, half-drunk as he was, noticed it and asked: "What is the matter with you, Fouquier? Do you think the lie so tremendous that you can't keep still?" The young man was glad to accept this interpretation of his behavior; he touched his glass to his lips and said, with a forced smile: "Well, I do think you are going it rather strong!"
The motley crew of half-drunk officials, miserably dressed, degraded, poor, in this scene of past magnificence, called up thoughts of the contrast between the government of old Mitla and the present, of past magnificence and modern squalor. Having accomplished all we wished at Mitla, we again struck eastward toward the land of the Mixes.
"Well, mother, if he had not smitten that man down I should have run him through. My sword was half out when he did so. You would not have had me stand by quietly and see you and Aline insulted by those wretches. But, indeed, the odds were not so great, seeing that they were but rabble of the town, and already half-drunk.
"An' so what that half-drunk dep'ty, Clem Tweed, calls an execution war leveled!" exclaimed Jane Gilhooley, her veiled head swaying forlornly as she sobbed invisibly. "But Dad 'lowed ez Peter Petrie shouldn't hev none o' his gear," Medora's eyes flashed with a responsive sentiment. "His gran'mam's warpin' bars!" suggested the elder woman.
The fishing had been successful, and the family, with customary improvidence, had, since unlading the cargo, continued an unremitting operation of broiling and frying that part of the produce reserved for home consumption, and the bones and fragments lay on the wooden trenchers, mingled with morsels of broken bannocks and shattered mugs of half-drunk beer.
They skulked off I can promise ye, and did not even mount a couple of broomsticks which I handsomely offered for their ride up to London." "Thunder and bombards!" cried a trooper, already half-drunk, and seizing Graul in his iron arms, "put the conjuror out of thine head now, and buss me, Graul, buss me!"
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