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Updated: June 19, 2025
'Shake hands with a brother. I'm goin' to jine the men's club. "'You BE? says I, surprised enough, for Simmons was a billiard-roomer from 'way back. "'Yup, he says. 'I'll be voted in at next meetin', sure. I'm studyin' up on parchesi now. "'Hum! I says, thinkin'. 'How you goin to vote? "'Me? says he. 'Me? Why, man, I wonder at you! Can't you see the fires of Conservatism blazin' in my eyes?
Edison's clothes there is no evidence but that every new suit that he has worn in that time looks as if he had been specially measured for it, which shows how very little he has changed physically in the last twenty years." Edison has never had any taste for amusements, although he will indulge in the game of "Parchesi" and has a billiard-table in his house.
"I don't care," Helena informed him; "it's a young sort of game, anyhow. Now I'm wearing waists and buttoned skirts I'd just as leaves write a letter to Margaret West with no boys in it at all." She left the parchesi board, and crossed the room to the piano, where she stood turning over sheets of music with a successful appearance of critical interest.
His interest in the game, he felt, was as false as Helena's pretended musical preoccupation; but he rolled the dice and shifted the counters, under Gregory's undeviating scrutiny, with the conviction that parchesi was not conspicuously different from the other more resounding movements of the world and its affairs.
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