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Updated: May 5, 2025
As he spoke, the central portion of the flooring flew up, and a most beautiful tortoise-shell-plated billiard-table rose up to its proper position. He pressed a second spring, and a bagatelle-table appeared in the same fashion. "You may have card-tables or what you will by setting the levers in motion," he remarked. "But all this is very trifling.
There was a very old bagatelle-table in one room, all moth-eaten, and a few old pictures still on the walls a knight and his lady with Elizabethan ruffs, and a portrait of a greyhound. From a top window the farmer showed them Evesham's bell-tower. But the most exciting moment was when each of them in turn was allowed to hide in the priest's hiding-hole.
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