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“’Tis a birdlike sensuousness2 that is all the Little Lady’s own,” Terrence was saying, as he helped himself to a cocktail3 from the tray Ah Ha was passing around.
It was the hour before dinner, and Graham, Leo and Terrence McFane had chanced together in the stag-room.
“No, Leo,” the Irishman warned the young poet. “Let the one suffice you. Your cheeks are warm with it. A second one and you’ll conflagrate. ’Tis no right you have to be mixing beauty and strong drink in that lad’s head of yours. Leave the drink to your elders. There is such a thing as consanguinity4 for drink. You have it not. As for me—”
He emptied the glass and paused to turn the cocktail reminiscently on his tongue.
“’Tis women’s drink,” he shook his head in condemnation5. “It likes me not. It bites me not. And devil a bit of a taste is there to it.—Ah Ha, my boy,” he called to the Chinese, “mix me a highball in a long, long glass—a stiff one.”
He held up four fingers horizontally to indicate the measure of liquor he would have in the glass, and, to Ah Ha’s query6 as to what kind of whiskey, answered, “Scotch or Irish, bourbon or rye—whichever comes nearest to hand.”
Graham shook his head to the Chinese, and laughed to the Irishman. “You’ll never drink me down, Terrence. I’ve not forgotten what you did to O’Hay.”
“’Twas an accident I would have you think,” was the reply. “They say when a man’s not feeling any too fit a bit of drink will hit him like a club.”
“And you?” Graham questioned.
“Have never been hit by a club. I am a man of singularly few experiences.”
“But, Terrence, you were saying... about Mrs. Forrest?” Leo begged. “It sounded as if it were going to be nice.”
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(嗓音)颤抖( falter的过去式和过去分词 ); 支吾其词; 蹒跚; 摇晃 | |
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