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In the parlor, a large corner-room, they found no one. The captain went out to summon his daughter, and Hans heard him calling, "Betty!" Betty! What a lovely name, and how well it suited that lovely being! The happy lover was already thinking how delightful it would be when he came home from his work at dinner-time, and could call out into the kitchen: "Betty! is dinner ready?"
Salamander, having obtained permission to retire, was in bed in his own corner-room, entertaining us with a duet through the nose if I may call that a duet in which both nostrils played the same air. "Check!" said Lumley, rousing himself a little, and placing a knight in such a position as to endanger my king. "Mate!" I exclaimed ruefully. "Hallo!" cried Blondin, waking up at the familiar word.
After wishing them good night, he waited in the corridor until he saw them enter the fatal corner-room and then he called abruptly to his brother, 'Come out, Stephen, and let us smoke! As soon as the two brothers were at liberty to speak together privately, Henry explained the motive which had led to his strange inquiries about the bedrooms.
All during the morning hours he would sit in the silence of that corner-room on the ground floor reading. There were three writing-desks in the library, and one was chiefly reserved for correspondence of a political nature, and another for his literary work, while the third was used by Mrs. Gladstone. He spent his evenings when at Hawarden in a cosy corner of the library reading.
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