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Updated: May 3, 2025
Half a dozen sound-asleep steamboats where I used to see a solid mile of wide-awake ones! This was melancholy, this was woeful. The absence of the pervading and jocund steamboatman from the billiard-saloon was explained. He was absent because he is no more.
How inconsistent were those long latticed verandas and balconies, pathetic record of that first illusion of the pioneers that their climate was a tropical one! A restaurant and billiard-saloon had aggrandized all of the lower story; but there was still the fanlight, over which the remembered title of "St.
His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow, and he lived in the north of London, coming into the City every day to work in a bank. He was twenty years old and suffered from aspirations. I met him in a public billiard-saloon where the marker called him by his given name, and he called the marker "Bullseyes."
However, she told herself, extenuatingly, "Men can't sew, so they can't work evenings. They are better off talking here than they would be in the billiard-saloon." Ellen, at that time of her life, had a slight, unacknowledged feeling of superiority over men of her own class. She regarded them very much as she regarded children, with a sort of tolerant good-will and contempt.
As schoolboy, as bank-clerk, as teacher, as worker in many ways, he has unemployed leisure in the hours of daylight, not so many as he should have, perhaps, but still many hours in the course of the month. Shall he go to the livery-stable, the bowling-alley, or the billiard-saloon?
"Thank you sir, but I don't think my father would like to have me visit a billiard-saloon at any rate, till I am older." "Oh, I'll see that you come to no harm. If you don't want to play, you can look on." "At any rate, I am obliged to you for your polite invitation." "Oh, I like to have the nice boys of the village around me. Your friend Randolph Duncan often visits me."
She's rather pretty and intelligent. In fact, she's generally capable and a good manager." "You seem to know her well since you call her Sadie." "Oh," said Festing, "everybody calls her Sadie!" "You mean in the bar and poolroom? I understand the latter's a public billiard-saloon!" Festing felt that he must do Sadie justice.
The ice is brought to the nearest railway station wrapped in straw, on the backs of the peons, and is thus transported daily, no large quantity being kept on hand. Opening from the main patio of the Iturbide Hotel upon the level of the street is a large billiard-saloon and bar-room combined.
We went to his house; and his wife told us that he was getting the mules for us. Night set in, and still he came not. At last, about nine o'clock, we found him at the billiard-room. He said he thought, when he did not return, we would take it for granted that he had not been able to find the mules. I believe he had never been further than the billiard-saloon looking for them.
I will lead the way to his chamber. Afterwards I want to speak to you." "All right." "Where did you find him?" asked Mrs. Vivian, when Frank with some difficulty had prepared his charge for bed. "In the billiard-saloon to which you directed me. He was upstairs playing cards for money. They were cheating him in the most outrageous manner." "I suppose they got all his money."
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