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I do not deny that he has kept me in the dark as to his resources and his liabilities both, she went on, looking at the wall; 'but I never will desert Mr. Micawber! Mrs. Micawber having now raised her voice into a perfect scream, I was so frightened that I ran off to the club-room, and disturbed Mr. Micawber in the act of presiding at a long table, and leading the chorus of
Blake should have returned to his proper station the day after the dance, but, like everybody else, so far as heard from, he had been held by the storm, and therefore happened to be in the club-room at the store along toward eleven o'clock on Tuesday, watching the distant deployment over the southeastward slopes of the barren upland.
The middle room of which, fitted up with a couple of old-fashioned billiard-tables, a huge coal stove, some rough benches, chairs, two or three round tables, and the inevitable bar and cigar-stand, bore on the portals the legend "officers'," as distinguished from the general "club-room" beyond.
I dare say his ancestor was a Gascon, poor fellow! and he affects to say that you can't choose a coat, or buy a horse, without his approval and advice, that he can turn you round his finger. Now this hurts your consequence in the world, you don't get credit for your own excellent sense and taste. Take my advice, avoid these young hangers-on of fashion, these club-room lions.
"Don't need to, now," cackled Furneaux. "It's the profile of a wall, gate, and outhouse along which one could reach the window of the club-room. Would you mind stopping grinning like a Cheshire cat?" "Anything else?" "Yes. This one: 'S.M.? 1820. That beats you, eh?" "Dished completely." "Doris Martin, as usual, supplies the answer.
This evening I accompanied Colonel Lumley and the officers at the castle, to the merchants club-room, where some played cards, while others passed the time in conversation, billiards, &c. In the intermediate hours during the day I called on various persons, and visited different parts of the town, to glean what information I could. The Horatio, schooner, tender to the Eden, arrived this evening.
"To that Virginia lady, I suppose," said one. "I remember her very well; and consider you fortunate." "I don't think you ever met her," said Mr Croft. "She is a Miss Peyton, from King Thomas County." "Ah!" remarked his interlocutor. Lawrence walked to the window of the club-room, and stood there, slowly puffing his cigar. Had anybody met this one? he thought.
I dare say his ancestor was a Gascon, poor fellow! and he affects to say that you can't choose a coat, or buy a horse, without his approval and advice, that he can turn you round his finger. Now this hurts your consequence in the world, you don't get credit for your own excellent sense and taste. Take my advice, avoid these young hangers-on of fashion, these club-room lions.
"And you will let that poltroon Stanford boast, as he does boast, that you will live and die single for his sake!" he cried, bitterly. "He has made it the subject of a bet in a London club-room with Major Lauderdale of the Guards." "No!" said she, her face flushing, her eyes kindling; "he never did that!" "He did do it. I have proof of it.
Blake's latest absurdity, that slangy paraphrase of Dante at the club-room?" "I heard of it," said Truscott, smilingly. "Who told you of it, Queenie?" "Why! I saw it to-day," she replied, as though suddenly conscious that she had put her foot on forbidden ground. Then, as he said nothing whatever, she went on in anxious explanation: "Mr.
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