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Before the door, some farmers, seated on a bench by a small circular table, were talking over their morning cups, on the affairs of their calling. On the side of the door itself was painted gaily and freshly the eternal sign of the chequers.
It was at The Chequers, and Anthea went in the back way to the yard, because they all knew that little girls ought not to go into the bars of public-houses. She came out, as she herself said, 'pleased but not proud'.
The door was opened by the parson, a bloodless and clean-shaven man, whose hollow cheeks and bony hands suggested a perpetual struggle. Ascetically benevolent were his grey eyes; a pale and ghostly smile played on the curves of his thin lips. "What can I do for you?" he asked. "Inn? yes, there's the Blue Chequers, but I 'm afraid you 'll find it shut.
In my refined days I remember reading in one of Thackeray's books about a young lord who was much loved by one Henry Esmond: My friend Jack was very like that young man, and you could not get vexed with him, or, at any rate, you could not keep vexed very long. We soon made friends in The Chequers, and before midnight we were confidential.
The late afternoon light was gilding the monstrous jars and suspending golden chequers among the golden-fruited leaves. Delightful, at any rate, to stroll and talk there in the afternoon sunshine. <i>January 2nd,</i> 1873. Two or three drives with A. one to St. Paul's without the Walls and back by a couple of old churches on the Aventine.
Long as this article has become, we have referred to but the more important of the passages which in reading we marked for comment, enough, however, we judge, to show that the biography of Ludwig van Beethoven still remains to be written. The American Draught-Player; or the Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Chequers. By HENRY SPAYTH. Buffalo, New York. Printed for the Author.
I understood that he referred to the bleared glass behind the bar of the Chequers, and I appreciated Teddy's powers of comparison; but I explained to him that mirrors cannot be safely hauled about by little boys, and he kindly assented to this proposition.
A few mornings after this interview, the owner of the house, in passing, saw a man painting the chequers on the door cheeks, and on looking up found that " was licensed to sell beer by retail, to be drunk on the premises." Astonished at this proceeding, he ordered the painter to stop his work, but the painter told him he was paid for the job, and do it he would.
After the fire of the rear squares had done its work, our cavalry fell on the wavering masses; and, as they rode off, the gunners ran forth from the squares and plied them with shot. In a few minutes the mounted host that seemed to have swallowed up the footmen was gone, the red and blue chequers stood forth triumphant, and the guns that should have been spiked dealt forth death.
I shall only say that Jim Billings got release, as the fishers say, and his wild, infantine outburst made powerful men cry like children. He is now a very quiet soul, and he neither visits The Chequers nor any other hostelry. There was great fun among the Gorleston men when Jim turned serious, and one merry smacksman actually struck at the quadroon. Jim bit his lip, and said,
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