Come, Trent, what stake will you have me set up against that other
tumblerful of brandy."
The tumblerfuls were generous ones and the raspberry cordial was certainly very nice.
"I never thought raspberry cordial would set people drunk, Marilla--not even if they drank three big tumblerfuls as Diana did.
Bert, however, got about a
tumblerful. "Atmospheric pressure," said Bert, finding a use at last for the elementary physiography of his seventh-standard days.
"I saw you take a neat
tumblerful since you come in, and it's made you drunk as a fool.
At that signal the lady companion, ensconced in her corner, with round eyes like a watchful animal, would dart out to the table and pour him out another
tumblerful.