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He dined alone at a club, wandering afterward aimlessly from library to billiard room and then took to the streets, trusting to physical exercise to clear his head of the tangle that Olga had put into it. Olga, the irrepressible man-hunter, in love with a "fossilized Galahad."
"Going to stop in Barford?" he asked. "Till I settle my grandfather's affairs yes," answered Collingwood. "Come and see us again," said Harper. "Come for the night we've got a jolly good billiard table." "Do!" added Nesta heartily. "Since you're so kind, I will, then," replied Collingwood. "But not for a few days." He drove off to wonder why he had visited Normandale Grange at all. For Mrs.
'Ninety-nine, says Sam, 'an' you're the hundredth. He seizes him by the neck an' rips him to pieces wi' his bowie-knife. Then he lay down an' went to sleep on the billiard table, while the father gathered up what remained o' his son from the floor.
He had never been known to be in a passion, but put remonstrance and chaff aside quietly, and went his own way without being in the slightest degree affected by them. Julian kept his promise, and was seen no more in the billiard saloon.
"In short, from the point of view of an investigation, I am a most provoking object." He sighed wearily, and stared out of the window in the direction of the Tudor garden. There was a slight chilliness in the air, which, or perhaps a sudden memory of that which lay in the billiard room beneath us, may have accounted for the fact that I shivered violently.
I'll bet anything yeou want to bet, and I don't keer a hang haow much it is! Yeou jest name the amount, and I'll kivver it!" He smashed his fist down on a billiard table as he made this announcement. "Why, you're a real sport!" chuckled Silence. "You're a reckless chap, aren't you! If I should say a hundred dollars, you'd wilt in your boots." Ephraim's blood was boiling now.
This did not last long; there was something in the unmoved way in which Philip waited till he had patience to listen, which gradually mastered him; his angry manner subsided, and, sitting down, he continued the argument, in a would-be-composed voice. 'It is utterly impossible! Remember, he thinks himself bound not so much as to touch a billiard cue.
This I consented to do, and had no sooner settled down to business than his creditors began crowding him, and in a very short time the business "collapsed." The only thing I had from the wreck was an old billiard-table which he turned over to me. As I had had quite a sad experience in the billiard business only a year before, I now thought I saw my only chance to get even.
And once more: while at revival seasons in individual churches, a temporary decrease of amusements may be seen, the more important fact is that the aggregate of Christian society has been for many years past developing a steadily increasing interest in the subject, and a corresponding liberality of sentiment respecting it. Scores of Christian men have billiard tables in their houses.
"Private business," said I, with an eye on Jeremy just coming down the stairs. "You talk Arabic?" He nodded, eyeing me keenly. "That man is my servant and knows my affairs. I'm too tired to talk after the journey. Suppose you ask him." So Jeremy came and sat beside us, and threw the cow's husband around as blithely as he juggles billiard balls. I wasn't supposed to understand what he was saying.
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