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For her own sake, I had purposely shown no special interest in what was coming; for her own sake, I had purposely looked at the billiard-balls, instead of looking at HER and what had been the result? I had sent her away from me, wounded to the heart!
They had dumplings too; small, but substantial, symmetrically globular, and indestructible dumplings. I fancied that you could feel them, and roll them about in you after they were swallowed. If you stooped over too far forward, you risked their pitching out of you like billiard-balls.
The windows were open, and one gave a view of the Court's watchful lamp-post, and the other of the house now occupied by an art dealer and a commission agent where the Duke had known both illusion and disillusion. The delicate sound of the collision of billiard-balls came from somewhere, and the rat-tatting of a tape-machine from somewhere else.
They do not meet on the street; they pass by on the other side, noses high in the air; each sublimely unaware of the other's existence. They suppose they are akin through Adam; but whould tell you that much has happened since then. Their kinship consists in this: the words are each are billiard-balls and yet, if you will allow the paradox, of quite different shapes.
I made the manual sign understood of all mankind that use the precious dust, and presently my brain, too, responded to the long unused stimulus O boys, that were, actual papas and possible grandpapas, some of you with crowns like billiard-balls, -some in locks of sable silvered, and some of silver sabled, do you remember, as you doze over this, those after-dinners at the Trois Freres when the Scotch-plaided snuff-box went round, and the dry Lundy-Foot tickled its way along into our happy sensoria?
In the hall there was a stout gentleman with a red nose, a soiled waiter, a desolate palm and a large-bosomed lady all rings and black silk, in a kind of wooden cage. Down the stairs came a dim vapour that smelt of beef, whisky and tobacco, and in the distance was the regular click of billiard-balls and the brazen muffled tones of a gramophone.
"I never believe what I hear, and only half of what I see." That was Mrs. Jack speaking. Murmurs. The billiard-balls clicked sharply as John played for position. "The stage doesn't appeal to you any more, then?" Mrs. Franklyn-Haldene. "Not in the least. It never did appeal to me. I am so far away from it now that I am losing the desire to witness plays." "And for whom will Mr.
The shock, like the earthquake shock, has run through them all; but only the end one, which had nothing beyond it but soft air, has been moved; and when you grow old, and learn mathematics, you will know the law of motion according to which that happens, and learn to apply what the billiard-balls have taught you, to explain the wonders of an earthquake.
Its theories require it to treat the ultimate particles into which it resolves matter, and which are so small that they are no longer divisible, as if they were solid bodies with weight and form, with centre and circumference, colliding with one another like billiard-balls, or like cosmic bodies in the depths of space, striking one another squarely, and, for aught I know, each going through another, or else grazing one another and glancing off.
The click of billiard-balls came from the ingle-nook Jack Cardigan, no doubt; a faint rustling, too, from an eucalyptus-tree, startling Southerner in this old English garden. She reached the verandah, and was passing in, but stopped at the sound of voices from the drawing-room to her left. Mother! Profond! From behind the verandah screen which fenced the ingle-nook she heard these words!
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