"The old lady's toddy is beginning to revive you." He could not help but notice how unusually beautiful the girl was.
"What a chance of fortune this is for me, but it does not follow, even though she was madly in love with my cousin, that she will hold me in the same favor.

But I'll stand none of her airs.

I'll show her right from the start that I'm the boss, and see how that will strike her fancy.

There'll be a terrible time when she comes to--screams, shrieks of anger, that will call everybody to the door." He turned on his heel and walked over to the mantel, where the innkeeper had deposited the bottle and the glass.
He poured out a heavy draught and drank it at a single swallow.

This was followed by another and yet another.
"Ah, there's nothing like bracing oneself up for a scene like this," he muttered, with a sardonic laugh.
The liquor seemed to turn the blood in his veins to fire and set his heart in a glow.