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The things which excited other men politics, sport, and the price of crystals were outside of his thoughts; and when men had done with them for a season, when like the tempest they had "blown their fill" in office and club-room and house and wanted a change, it was a relief to turn to Mr. Abel and get him to discourse of his world the world of nature and of the spirit.
From these hints, my readers will perceive I am incapacitated for one of the pleasures of old age, which, though not mentioned by Cicero, is not the least frequent resource in the present day the club-room, and the snug hand at whist. To return to my old companions.
"He is coming here tonight, and you must judge for yourself what kind of a man he is." "Here?" asked Frank. "Here to this club-room? The boys won't do a thing to him if he puts on dog!" "Is he a submarine expert?" asked Frank. "Sure!" replied Jack. "He wouldn't be sent here to post us if he wasn't, would he?"
''Tis a subsidence his life, Sir, stealing away like the fluid from the clepsydra less and less left every hour a little time will measure all out. 'What the plague's a clepsydra? asked Cluffe of Toole, as they walked side by side into the club-room.
Even Legendre, who is occasionally the Brutus, the Curtius, and all the patriots whose names he has been able to learn, confined his prowess to an assault on the club-room of the Jacobins, when it was empty, and carrying off the key, which no one disputed with him, so that he can at most claim an ovation.
He turned his eye quickly from the Gazette, as it lay with other papers on the club table; for its grim pages seemed to look in his face with a sort of significance, as if they might some day or other have a small official duty to perform by him; and when an unexpected bankruptcy was announced by Cluffe or Toole in the club-room, it made his ear ring like a slap, and he felt sickish for half an hour after.
Can any one imagine such a thing? You can't have a club-room without mahogany tables, you can't have mahogany tables without magazines Longman's, with a serial by Rider Haggard, the Nineteenth Century, with an article, "The Rehabilitation of the Pimp in Modern Society," by W. E. Gladstone a dulness that's a purge to good spirits, an aperient to enthusiasm; in a word, a dulness that's worth a thousand a year.
Cutts was, however, in the club-room of those dark associates against whom Losely had been warned. Oblivious of his solemn promise to Arabella, Jasper startled the revellers as he stalked into the room, and towards the chair of honour at the far end of it, on which he had been accustomed to lord it over the fell groups he had treated out of Poole's purse.
"Why would you decline my invitation?" he asked, in a tone of what was intended to be tender reproach. "I prefer not to visit the club-room, as I believe it is called." "You would soon get used to it if you were in the Army," he ventured awkwardly.
It ought to be the most charming room in town, to comfort women sick of prairie kitchens. Certainly it ought to have a clear window, so that they can see the metropolitan life go by. Some day I'm going to make a better rest-room a club-room. Why! I've already planned that as part of my Georgian town hall!" Even before the entrance of the coffee and hot rolls Carol seized on Mrs.
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