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Two or three years after the opening of the new building White's ceased to be a public resort as a Chocolate-house and became a club in the strict meaning of the word. It remained under the direction of Mr. Arthur till his death in 1761, and then passed into the control of Robert Mackreth, who had begun his career as a billiard-marker in the establishment.
But the commentator and the billiard-marker are alike admirable, if they are working out a theory, if they think that thus and thus they can best help on the progress of the world. "My own desire is, so to speak, to be a commentator on life, in one particular aspect.
So Captain Lake informed that functionary that his friend had come up to town, and asked him again whether he was quite certain that he had not called there, or sent for his letters. No; nothing of the sort. Then Captain Lake asked to see the billiard-marker, who was likely to know something about him. But he knew nothing.
'Does he? replied Captain Seedeybuck. 'That, I suppose, will depend upon Watchorn. The party now got settled to breakfast, and as soon as the first burst of appetite was appeased, the conversation again turned upon our friend Mr. Sponge. 'Who is this Mr. Sponge? asked Captain Bouncey, the billiard-marker, with the air of a thorough exclusive. Nobody answered.
The Alligator was at once sent with soldiers to the scene of the disaster to effect the rescue of the prisoners by friendly and pacific means. Arrived on the scene, the captain sent his only two interpreters on shore to negotiate. They were Guard himself and a lying billiard-marker from Kororáreka.
Were high principles a sine qua non to such a humble individual as himself, a "bookmaker" on race-courses, a billiard-marker elsewhere in their breathing-times? Though indeed Mr. Jerry in his chequered life had seen many other phases of employment chiefly, whenever he had the choice, within the zone of horsiness. For he had a mysterious sympathetic knowledge of the horse.
Mart had some "p'otographs" of his house in the Springs, and showed them to Patrick. "Do ye see yerself smokin' a pipe on that porch?" "I do not," the father energetically replied. "I see meself goin' the rounds of that garden with a waterin'-pot and a pair of shears." "I thought ye was a bricklayer, or is it a billiard-marker?" asked Mart, with quizzical look.
"You would hardly dare to say that to Hugh Rossiter's face, Cedric," returned Malcolm somewhat sternly. "He was my informant; he knew the Jacobis when Saul Jacobi was a billiard-marker in San Francisco, and his sister living with her husband in Verona. You have been badly treated, my dear boy how badly you little know. You have been encouraged to make love to a married woman.
He told her, without attempting to soften or palliate the fact, that nothing would reconcile Miss Templeton and her sister to such a marriage; that her brother's character was regarded by them with abhorrence; that their cherished brother should marry the sister of a billiard-marker a mere adventurer and gambler was utterly impossible; and Leah's head was bowed low as she listened.
"Jacobi was a billiard-marker in San Francisco when I first came across his trail, and his sister had just married an Italian count." "Married! Leah Jacobi married! What on earth do you mean?" "That's so," returned the American coolly. "Count Antonio Ferrari that was the name; a hoary old sinner with a pedigree that nearly reached to Adam, and as rich and miserly as Shylock.
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