 | William Henry G. Kingston - 1883 - 404 pages
...progress have you made ? " asked Gaffin, as he entered and found young Miles lounging lazily alone, a pipe in his mouth and a glass of brandy and water by his side. " I thought I knew something about girls," was the answer, " and that I could come round her much as... | |
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...A. waiter at an Hotel in the Isle of Wight heard a conversation between the writer and a gentleman with a pipe in his mouth, and a glass of brandy and water by his side. On the following morning said the waiter, " Can you give me one of those books which yon gave that... | |
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Croydon, sitting up in bed with a cigar in his mouth and a glass of brandy and water by his side, being entertained, lske some Eastern potentate, by a "broom girl" dressed in picturesque attire and an itinerant tumbler who was busily turning somersaults... 