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Updated: June 17, 2025
The sally was not greeted with applause. The situation was regarded as being too serious to admit of humor, and in silence they filed back into the billiard-room, and, arranging themselves in groups, stood about anxiously discussing the situation. "It's getting rougher every minute," sobbed Ophelia. "Look at those pool-balls!"
The sally was not greeted with applause. The situation was regarded as being too serious to admit of humor, and in silence they filed back into the billiard-room, and, arranging themselves in groups, stood about anxiously discussing the situation. "It's getting rougher every minute," sobbed Ophelia. "Look at those pool-balls!"
"Then," said the Professor, with a dexterous jab of his cue at the pool-balls "then, in your estimation, an author is a thing to be led about by the nose by the beings he selects for use in his books?" "You put it in a rather homely fashion," returned Harley; "but, on the whole, that is about the size of it."
A shout of laughter rose from the crowd at the two games; then the pool-balls clicked again and "Raise you ten," a poker-player said. Breckenbridge's guide beckoned to the man who had done the shooting. He came across the room, shoving his gun back into the holster, a rather thickly built man but well-knit and there was a soft spring in his slowest movements which suggested snake-like quickness.
Everything ran wide open, and all night long rough men sinned abysmally in their hell-envied play, and, crowding the saloons, laughed and fought and drank red liquor in front of long pine bars, where the rattle of chips and the click of pool-balls, mingled with lurid profanity, floated out through the open doors and blended with the incessant tintinnabulation of the dance-hall pianos.
"I aim to make you so comfortable in Jonesville that " Blaze paused, he started, and a peculiar expression crept over his face. It seemed to Law that his friend actually turned pale; at any rate, his mouth dropped open and his gaze was no longer hypnotically following the pool-balls, but was fixed upon his opponent.
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