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Updated: May 11, 2025
I found the bottle of brandy in the place indicated, but no liqueur-glass in the backgammon-board. There was, however, a wine-glass, accidentally left on a chair by the sofa. Mrs. Baggs did not seem to notice the difference when I brought it into the back room and filled it with brandy. "Take a toothful yourself," said Mrs. Baggs, lightly tossing off the dram in a moment.
The rules were not very strict for those inmates who had a little money to spend; she received visitors, sent to Tournebut for her backgammon-board and her book of rules, and calmly awaited the long-hoped-for thunderbolt. It fell at length, and the old Chouan must have flushed with triumph when she heard that Bonaparte was crushed. What a sudden change!
"For me!" exclaimed Miss Vila, in a dismayed undertone. "Julia!" Mrs. Martindale glanced at the card. She rose at once, just as Mr. Buckingham entered the room with a little hesitation in his step. As the two ladies held the backgammon-board in their laps, one effect of the sudden movement was to send the men rolling in every direction about the room.
There was a great cry for the "emergency basket," that had not been opened yet. Mrs. Peterkin explained how for days the family had been putting into it what might be needed, as soon as anything was thought of. Everybody stopped to see its contents. It was carefully covered with newspapers. First came out a backgammon-board.
As a rational person, one may debonairly consider The Certain Hour possesses as large license to look like a volume of short stories as, say, a backgammon-board has to its customary guise of a two-volume history; but as an average-novel-reader, one must vote otherwise.
He sniffed the liquor and smacked his lips. 'O rare milk of Ararat! he said, 'it is sweet and strong, and sets the heart at ease. And now get the backgammon-board, John, and set it for us on the table. So they fell to the game, and I took a sly sip at the liquor, but nearly choked myself, not being used to strong waters, and finding it heady and burning in the throat.
The Doctor rode in an ambulance-waggon crammed to the tilt with materials ranging from a stomach-pump to a backgammon-board; appliances not a few to restore the sick to health, appliances in far larger numbers to preserve health in the already healthy. Mr. Clogg, the second lieutenant, walked with a terrier and carried a bag of rats by way of provision against the dull winter evenings.
Can you gather from it, read till your eyes go out, any dimmest shadow of an answer to that great question: How men lived and had their being; were it but economically, as, what wages they got and what they bought with these? Unhappily you cannot.... History, as it stands all bound up in gilt volumes, is but a shade more instructive than the wooden volumes of a backgammon-board.
'Trot, said my aunt one evening, when the backgammon-board was placed as usual for herself and Mr. Dick, 'we must not forget your education. This was my only subject of anxiety, and I felt quite delighted by her referring to it. 'Should you like to go to school at Canterbury? said my aunt. I replied that I should like it very much, as it was so near her. 'Good, said my aunt.
Thinking back to the days of the patriarchs my mind still further magnified this scene, so grand in its simplicity. The children said good-night, the servants bowed, the countess went away holding a child by each hand, and I returned to the salon with the count. "We provide you with salvation there, and hell here," he said, pointing to the backgammon-board.
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