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He was very drunk; and because of that Victoria Lindley, barmaid at O'Fallen's, was angry -- not at him but at O'Fallen, who had given him the liquor.
She knew more about him than any one else. The first time she saw him he was not sober. She had left the bar-room empty; and when she came back he was there with others who had dropped in, evidently attracted by his unusual appearance -- he wore an eyeglass -- and he had been saying something whimsically audacious to Dicky Merritt, who, slapping him on the shoulder, had asked him to have a swizzle.