Where's the water ?" He swung his symmetrical body to the bed's edge, dropped lightly to the carpet, unloosed his night robe, and stretched himself.
"Was I very drunk, Burgess ?" "No, sir; you just went to sleep.

You haven't got no headache, have you ?" "No--but it was only corn whisky.

I didn't remember what I did with it.

Is there any left ?" "Not much, sir." The servant, ugly to the verge of deformity, and wearing invariably the abominable smirk that disgusted others but amused Berkley, went about his duties.
Berkley blinked at him reflectively, then bathed, dressed, and sat down to a bowl of chocolate and a bit of bread.
"What the devil was all that row this morning, Burgess ?" "War, sir.

The President has called for seventy-five thousand men.
Here it is, sir." And he laid a morning paper beside the cup of chocolate, which Berkley studied between sips, commenting occasionally aloud: "Heavens, Burgess, why, we're a race of patriots! Now who on earth could have suspected that.