Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 29, 2025
"With pleasure!" I answered. "I was just going into the smoke-room." He stalked solemnly ahead, and I followed him along the corridor. Mr. de Valentin led the way to a secluded corner of the smoke-room, and laid a well-filled cigarette case upon the table. He beckoned to the steward. "You will take something?" he asked. I ordered a whisky and soda and lit a cigarette.
Many human things were foreign to the clergyman: he was uneasy about being in the Arequipa's smoke-room at all, for instance, and especially uneasy about sitting there with the drummer. "But human sacrifice!" he protested. "You spoke of human sacrifice." "And cannibalism. La chèvre sans cornes the goat without horns that means an unblemished child less than three years old. It's frequently done.
Several of our fellow-passengers spoke to us that evening for the first time. A. Carleton Heathcroft, Esquire, was not among the Lounge habitues; the smoke-room was his accustomed haunt.
The offer of a book here, a steamer-rug there, a word of encouragement to a chatty bore in the smoke-room these are small things, but they may lead to much. One meets influential people on a liner. You wouldn't think it to look at him, but that man with the eye-glasses and the thin nose I was talking to just now is one of the richest men in Milwaukee!"
The newcomer leaped away in the wake of the mummy-man who had vanished around the corner by the smoke-room. Over his shoulder he cried back at me: "The bishop's stateroom! See that no one enters!" I clutched at my head which seemed to be fiery hot; I realized in my own person the sensation of one who knows himself mad. For the man who pursued the mummy was Nayland Smith!
He organized a little impromptu concert in the music room, and when that was well started, slipped away to the smoke-room. Here he found a pool being organized as to the exact day and hour when the Pomerania would reach port. Appealed to for his opinion, he advised caution. On all sides he was in demand, for dancing, for bridge, for a recitation.
Jack had finished his luncheon, and was taking a cup of coffee with his cigarette in the smoke-room, when a waiter entered, bearing a card the owner of which was enquiring for Mr Singleton. The card bore the name of "James M. Nisbett", and Jack knew that Senor Montijo's agent had arrived. He accordingly directed the waiter to show Mr Nisbett up into his private sitting-room.
Impossible to write in my bedroom, the temperature was below zero; there was no choice but to sit down in the common room, a place like the smoke-room of a poor commercial hotel in England. A dozen men were gathered about the fire, smoking, talking, quarrelling. Favourable conditions, you see, for literary effort.
My rooms are almost directly overhead. And right at the end of the corridor, that is on the southeast corner of the building, is Colonel Menendez's bedroom, and facing it a sort of little smoke-room. It was in this direction that the footsteps went." "To Colonel Menendez's room?" "Yes. They were light, furtive footsteps." "This took place late at night?"
I was in the "Smoke-Room" after dinner the third evening out, enjoying a cigar and idly listening to the bidding for pools on the ship's run, that time-honored custom which helps the traveling gentleman of sporting proclivities to kill time and lose money.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking