Capitolo 53
"Drinks with me, gentleman" he said, while turning to the happy Briggs.
"Thanks, colonel. You are a gentleman!"
"Two glasses, Tim."
Then the colonel exhausted a second glass and Briggs, pouring out with
trembling fingers as much as him they challenged, followed suit.
When the last drop was drunk, he breathed a deep sigh of immoderate
enjoyment.
"If both you they bring here that boy in", said Tim "I will be standing a
couple of glasses for both."
"We am Your men, Tim", Prostitute dictates. "To the not us, Briggs?"
"That is so, Prostitute. Shake!"
And the poor victims of drink emphatically shook the hand. Long since then
they had sunk their virility in the intoxicating cup, and of now from now on
only lived to gratify theirs persistently asking unnatural for what is able sooner or
later you bring them to the grave of a drunkard.
As they left the cafe, the colonel turned him to Tim, and says:
"I like whiskey gentleman,; but I will be hanged if I can respect such men as
those."
"They is vagabond colonel that is what they is!"
"How do you/they live?"
"Doesn't know. They is in here around every day."
"If it is drink that is brought them where they is, I am half tilted
to abdicate him/it; but, everything, is not necessary later to make a beast of
You. I drink as a gentleman, gentleman always."
"Then you do, the colonel."
To that moment a poor woman, in a suit of calico grown weak with a thin shawl
on his/her shoulders, the footsteps that have conducted in the cafe come down, and
walked above to the bar.
"Has my husband been to-evening here?" she asked.
Tim Bolton knitted the eyelashes.
"Who is Your husband?" he asked, roughly.
"Wilson."
"No, Bill Wilson has not been to-evening here. Even if he had Him have anybody
business to come later him. I don't want here women of sniveling."
"I could not help him/it, the Mr. Bolton" says the woman putting his/her apron to,
his/her eyes. "If Bill enters, won't you/he/she tell him/it to return home? The
dead child, and we don't have a cent in the house!"
Also Tim had stirred from this.