[ Irving's chin tips upward slightly as he tries to imagine it, the descriptions alone nearly as intoxicating as the whiskey; he's never been to the tropics, not even to the Sandwich Islands, but like most men -- particularly in the Navy, and especially particularly in the Discovery Service -- he does have a few romantic notions of what a life lived down there must be like. What John Irving himself would actually do with "freedom," he hasn't a clue, but still, it sounds nice enough.
Not that he really minds snow, necessarily, or at least not normally, but it's likely not too hard to understand why his mind may have been recently changed on the subject.
And yes, he is a bit of a lightweight, though it also helps that the whiskey is strong -- normally it takes Irving two or three glasses to start feeling as tipsy as he's already feeling now -- and that he's only been drinking heavily watered down spirits for the past year or so. ]
That will never happen. [ Drunk(ish) or not, Irving sounds confident. ] Not as you describe it. Jopson would never assume such a thing about me.
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[ Irving's chin tips upward slightly as he tries to imagine it, the descriptions alone nearly as intoxicating as the whiskey; he's never been to the tropics, not even to the Sandwich Islands, but like most men -- particularly in the Navy, and especially particularly in the Discovery Service -- he does have a few romantic notions of what a life lived down there must be like. What John Irving himself would actually do with "freedom," he hasn't a clue, but still, it sounds nice enough.
Not that he really minds snow, necessarily, or at least not normally, but it's likely not too hard to understand why his mind may have been recently changed on the subject.
And yes, he is a bit of a lightweight, though it also helps that the whiskey is strong -- normally it takes Irving two or three glasses to start feeling as tipsy as he's already feeling now -- and that he's only been drinking heavily watered down spirits for the past year or so. ]
That will never happen. [ Drunk(ish) or not, Irving sounds confident. ] Not as you describe it. Jopson would never assume such a thing about me.