I had a little cognac in my sauve vie, and I divided it among usjust enough to wet our moustaches.

He weigh 196, dey tells me, an' nobuddy be'n lucky 'nuff to lay 'im out.

It was what in those days was called a single house, though a spacious-enough mansion; that is, all the rooms, with one exception, were placed either on the same side of the wide hall of entrance, or behind it in the ell.