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She knew that I'd never take care of you when she made that trip to Thailand to buy paintings for this so called gallery of hers just a partitioned backroom, more like a closet, that caused her to rename the store into 'The Gallery. Me, the arsonist, was in my own little kennel a cheap hotel room. But then yours was a little worse wasn't it?
The piano occupied one corner of an alcove off the large backroom. In the other corner of the alcove Baldwin and a few friends were sitting into a quiet little game. Things had been breaking well for the sailor, and it promised to be a blissful night, for when luck came his way in a poker game, Baldwin could fall into a trance, if nobody disturbed him.
There are eight gin-mills Over There as against two sample-rooms in the Old Town, and of the local constabulary two-thirds lead exciting lives patrolling the Flats; the remaining third is ordinarily to be found dozing in the backroom of Schwartz's, and if roused will answer to the name and title of Pete Willing, Sheriff and Chief of Police.
Harriet's iron repression almost gave way. She covered her emotion with details: "Mrs. Lorenz is going to let me make Christine some things, and if they're all right I may make her trousseau." "Trousseau for Christine!" "She's not engaged, but her mother says it's only a matter of a short time. I'm going to take two rooms in the business part of town, and put a couch in the backroom to sleep on."
He accordingly ordered Dandy to make such slight preparations as were necessary for their return to that town, and in the meantime he determined to pay another visit to old Dunphy of Constitution Hill. On arriving at the huckster's, he found him in the backroom, or parlor, to which we have before alluded. The old man's manner was, he thought, considerably changed for the better.
"No objection," replied Martin. "Any thing to make the time pass agreeably. Suppose we say chequers?" "Very well. Here's a board. We'll go into the backroom where it's more quiet." The two men retired into the little den in the rear of the bar-room, where were several parties engaged at cards or dice. "Here's a cozy little corner," said the pleasant friend of Martin.
Harty did not close the door behind her until he had seen her kneel at the altar-rail. Out in the street again, he turned abruptly to his chum. "Look here, Baldy, what was it her father whispered to you just before she came into the backroom?" "What?
Ramos and Tiflin, two wild characters with seldom-cut hair and pipe stem pants, who didn't look as if they could be trusted with a delicate unpacking operation, broke the Archer out with a care born of love, there in Paul Hendricks' big backroom shop, while the more stolid members and old Paul, silent in his swivel chair watched like hawks. "So who tries it on first?" Ramos challenged.
I'm all right. I'll take a walk and come back." "All right, but hurry back, won't you?" The Port Light saloon was doing a fine business. The swinging doors between the backroom and the bar were swinging all the time and at the various tables a score of young men and a dozen or so of young women, and one stout fellow at the piano, were roaring dull care away.
The drawing-room was divided by folding doors, which were seldom closed, and in the four corners of each division were crimson lounges, of luxurious and graceful form. Company generally gathered in the front part, but the backroom was equally pleasant, as it opened into the flower-garden through a balcony shaded by vines.
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