human
Will you take a drink?--Good old rye--capital stuff--twenty year old, that. Though, may be, you'd like a julep. But I don't go in for juleps--the mint's over-heating, 'specially when one's dined.
gpt
I thought you Virginian gentlemen took all your liquor before dinner,
human
Some do, and some don't, he said, rather shily.
gpt
For my own part, I only take a glass or two of apple-jack before dinner; but I always have my glass of whisky-and-water after; and, he added, about a spoonful of water to the tumblerful of spirits.
human
You see I'm a great sufferer from the dispepsy--indeed, most of us are about here.