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"We can find no sign of a struggle anywhere. But, then, we never do." He opened for the moment the door of the stately drawing-room. "No sign of a struggle there," he said. The closed blinds, the draped furniture, the covered piano, the muffled chandelier, showed absolutely no sign of a struggle. "Come upstairs to the billiard-room," said Edwards.
So we draw about the kitchen fire and play a round game of cards for ha'pence, or go to the billiard-room for a match at corks; and by one consent a messenger is sent over for the wagonette Grez shall be left to-morrow. To-morrow dawns so fair that two of the party agree to walk back for exercise, and let their knapsacks follow by the trap.
Distant mutterings of thunder aroused her; the evening sky had darkened, and angry-looking clouds of purple were gathering over the hills. She rose and hurried homeward. She had thought to enter by the billiard-room door, and so gain her own chamber without encountering the household; but she had reckoned without her hostess.
He shambled down the dusty, empty road, feeling dull and bored, and when he reached the club, before going into the billiard-room, went into the bar to have a drink by himself. He had a shyness now about joining the company of white men when there were a lot of them together and needed a stiff dose of whisky to give him confidence.
If this detective could prove that Gertrude feared and disliked the murdered man, and that Mr. Armstrong had been annoying and possibly pursuing her with hateful attentions, all that, added to Gertrude's confession of her presence in the billiard-room at the time of the crime, looked strange, to say the least.
Herrick gave a shout of joy and triumph. "What did I tell you!" he called. "See how he loves it! See how happy he is." "Not at all," protested Kelly. "He thought you gave him the sign to 'roll over. Tell him to 'play dead, and he'll do that." "Tell ALL the bears to 'play dead," begged Jackson, "until I'm back in the billiard-room."
Soapsuds! that's not his name, exclaimed her ladyship. 'Sponge, you fool! Soapey Sponge, exclaimed Cutitfat, who had ferreted out Sponge's nomme de Londres. 'He's not come, has he? asked Miss Glitters eagerly. 'Yes, my lady that's to say, miss, replied Peter. 'Come, has he! chorused three or four voices. 'The green the one above the billiard-room will do, added he.
The house was gorgeous in all the glory of the very latest fashions in upholstery; hall Algerian; dining-room Pompeian; drawing-room Early Italian; music-room Louis Quatorze; billiard-room mediaeval English. The dinner was as magnificent as dinner can be made. Three-fourths of the guests were the haute gomme of the financial world, and perspired gold. The other third belonged to a class which Mr.
The billiard-room of the villa Vilquin, a species of gallery, formerly communicated through an immense aviary with this hot-house. But after the building of the wall which deprived him of a view into the orchards, Dumay bricked up the door of communication. "Wall for wall!" he said.
I have quite as great an interest in being careful of his house as you can have; and as to such alterations as I was suggesting just now, such as moving a bookcase, or unlocking a door, or even as using the billiard-room for the space of a week without playing at billiards in it, you might just as well suppose he would object to our sitting more in this room, and less in the breakfast-room, than we did before he went away, or to my sister's pianoforte being moved from one side of the room to the other.
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