Excerpt: ...we have not been friends before. You have given us a very pleasant evening, quite unexpectedly, and I drink to your very good health." "Hold, sir!" cried Gates. "I am sure you will allow me to suggest an amendment. Let us drink to the everlasting joy of the fair woman who is your wife. May her shadow never grow less." "Thank you," said she, "I bid you drink, gentlemen, and share the joy with me. Ah!" as she set the goblet down, "that is delicious." "Superb!" cried her husband. "My dear sah, it thrills me, it ...
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Excerpt: ...we have not been friends before. You have given us a very pleasant evening, quite unexpectedly, and I drink to your very good health." "Hold, sir!" cried Gates. "I am sure you will allow me to suggest an amendment. Let us drink to the everlasting joy of the fair woman who is your wife. May her shadow never grow less." "Thank you," said she, "I bid you drink, gentlemen, and share the joy with me. Ah!" as she set the goblet down, "that is delicious." "Superb!" cried her husband. "My dear sah, it thrills me, it sends a warmth through me that I have not experienced in a hundred and thirty- five years. How long do you expect to remain at Gloaming?" "One week longer." "I shall come again if you will but prepare another like this." "You swore that this would be your last, Godfrey; are you as vacillating as ever!" cried his wife. "I-oh, dearest, a few of these won't hurt me-you know they won't," came earnestly from the other wraith. "If you touch another I shall despise you forever and forever," she cried firmly. "Take your choice, Godfrey Gloame." "It's plain that I am doomed to eternal punishment, whichever way you put it," mourned poor Godfrey. "Take away the glasses, Mr. Garrison. I'll no more of it if my wife so disposes." "Noble fellow," said Gates. "Have another cigarette!" "Stay! I have heard that they are worse than liquor," objected Mrs. Gloame. "I don't know but you are right," supplemented Gates. "But I must have some sort of a vice, dear," pleaded poor Godfrey. "Vice may be fashionable on earth, but if that's the case it was fashion that ruined us, you'll remember, Godfrey," she reminded him. "That's worth thinking about," mused Garrison. "There is something deep in that observation. You spooks are-" "'Spooks!" cried the Gloames, arising in deep resentment. "I mean shades," apologised Gates. "You do say-" "Pardon me," interrupted Godfrey, nervously, "but can you tell me what time it is?" "Ten minutes after twelve, sir." "Oh, we must be...
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