If he had thoughts at all, they hung around that
brandy bottle.
"Drink it up; you positively must drink the
brandy, and then seltzer water and a lot of lemon," said Yashvin, standing over Petritsky like a mother making a child take medicine, "and then a little champagne--just a small bottle."
All that they possessed, including some wondrous
brandy, was placed at the absolute disposition of Dirkovitch, and he enjoyed himself hugely - even more than among the Black Tyrones.
With this, and with my aid, Hands bound up the great bleeding stab he had received in the thigh, and after he had eaten a little and had a swallow or two more of the
brandy, he began to pick up visibly, sat straighter up, spoke louder and clearer, and looked in every way another man.
"There's very little
brandy in it, sir," he said, turning it downwards over the glass, as he held it before the window; "hardly this little glassful."
Sleary, stirring and drinking his
brandy and water as he stood, went on:
'Give me some
brandy for him first,' says the doctor; 'and then get him home at once.' I found the
brandy, and went away to the inn to order the carriage.
And now, as I hear you're a little short of
brandy in the fore-part, I'll offer ye a change: a bottle of
brandy against two buckets of water."
The doctor's friend was in the positive degree of hoarseness, puffiness, red-facedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and
brandy; the doctor in the comparative--hoarser, puffier, more red-faced, more all-fourey, tobaccoer, dirtier, and brandier.
He asked me no questions, but gave me some more
brandy and water and pressed me to eat.
Besides a sufficient stock of pure
brandy, he arranged two water-tanks, each of which contained twenty-two gallons.
Good, who had charge of the flask of
brandy, got it out and looked at it longingly; but Sir Henry promptly took it away from him, for to drink raw spirit would only have been to precipitate the end.