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What is your idea?" "Brown stone front French plate glass billiard-room off the dining-room statuary and paintings shrubbery and two-acre grass plat greenhouse iron dog on the front stoop gray horses landau, and a coachman with a bug on his hat!" "By George!" A long pause. "Cal., when are you going to Europe?" "Well I hadn't thought of that. When are you?" "In the Spring."
With cheap horseflesh, capital shooting, the latest books and papers from India, a good billiard-room and lawn-tennis ground, time never hangs very heavily. Living is absurdly cheap. A bachelor can do well on £6 a month, including servants. He has, of course, no house-rent to pay.
On the day before the departure of Michel we had planned together that he was to turn back secretly on the way and fetch me I received from him through his trusted valet a note, in which he asked me to meet him at half-past nine in the summer billiard-room, a large, low-pitched room, built on to the big house in the garden. He wrote to me that he absolutely must speak with me and arrange things.
A spacious saloon bar flooded with glaring light, with modern furniture and appliances, is to take the place of the old rooms, coffee-room, billiard-room, and bar. In fact, it is to become a modern hotel. The change is quite enough to make the shade of Dickens arise.
Wall, he could get such big rents for drinkin'-saloons, that four of Cicely's buildings wus rented for that purpose; and there wus one billiard-room. And what made it worse for Cicely seemin'ly, it wus her own property, that she brought to Paul when she wus married, that wus invested in these buildings. At that time they wus rented for dry-goods stores, and groceries.
By his side on the crimson leather seat behind the counter there was generally a fair little woman, whom he had engaged as counter assistant in addition to the white-aproned waiter who attended to the tables and the billiard-room. The young woman's name was Rose, and she seemed a very gentle and submissive being.
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.
Two days later, at noon, the card of Captain Gambier was brought to him in the billiard-room, on it was written: "Miss Belloni waits on horseback to see you." Wilfrid thought "Waits!" and the impossibility of escape gave him a notion of her power. "So, you are letting that go on," said Lady Charlotte, when she heard that Emilia and the captain were in company. "There is no fear for her whatever."
"I must talk to Saunders about it," said Eustace. "I suppose that it will be necessary to have the billiard-room fitted up with book cases." The two men met for the first time after many weeks in the dining-room that evening. "Hullo!" said Eustace, standing before the fire with his hands in his pockets. "How goes the world, Saunders? Why these dress togs?"
The Princess asked whether she found what she was reading amusing. "I do not know. I was reading and thinking. Paul Vence is right: 'We find only ourselves in books." Through the hangings came from the billiard-room the voices of the players and the click of the balls. "I have it!" exclaimed the Princess, throwing down the cards.
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