The Red House Mystery/Chapter XI

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작성자 Olga Auricht
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I was just thinking how much better this is than a club. I must here confess that I do not know enough of the game to express a decided opinion on these matters, but there are one or two points that ought to be kept in view, and which I cannot help thinking are too often lost sight of not only in golf, but in every game and sport when the weighing and comparison of the old and new is attempted. Avery's manner in challenging him, as though he must refuse from fear of such a fall as he just had witnessed, was not enough to explain Eaton's start. But now that Irene was home, the memory of her broken-hearted sobbing came back to him, and he felt nervous at the thought of facing her. She found herself now facing one of these groups composed of some of her own friends, who were taking tea and wafers in the recess before some windows.


At one o’clock Vuyning had luncheon with Miss Allison by previous arrangement. "Be comforted," said Vuyning. "Thanks," said Vuyning. "I thought it was Yates. "Bacon, toasted on a green willow switch over red coals, ought to put broiled lobsters out of business," said Vuyning. All the trumps were out. I noticed that he fell somehow as if he knew the hang of the trick; and Harkness passed him out of Riding School on the strength of that fall. "And you say a horse at the end of a thirty-foot rope can’t pull a ten-inch stake out of wet prairie? He told them of camps, of ranches marooned in a sea of fragrant prairie blossoms, of gallops in the stilly night that Apollo would have forsaken his daytime steeds to enjoy; he read them the great, rough epic of the cattle and the hills that have not been spoiled by the hand of man, the mason.


With a wave of his hand he swept the clubhouse into a pine-crowned gorge, turning the waiters into a grim posse, and each listener into a blood-stained fugitive, climbing with torn fingers upon the ensanguined rocks. It came to pass that at eight in the evening a calm, smooth, brilliant, affable man sat at Vuyning’s right hand during dinner. Greene & Knott, of the Cosmopolitan Saloon, was conducted last evening by a game between Joshua Davies and M. W. Henderson, the two highest winners in the series of games played. Bill, when did you last read 'Paradise Lost'? Why make it longer by going under the house first? What Mrs. Soames had said to Bosinney in the train was now no longer dark. He wore a suit of dark cheviot that looked to have been draped upon him by an ancient Grecian tailor who was a few thousand years ahead of the styles. She looked at him with wondering and half-terrified eyes. And then, with a sweep of his white, unringed hands, he dismissed Melpomene, and forthwith Diana and Amaryllis footed it before the minds’ eyes of the clubmen.


Yes, that's true. Well, then, you think the dining-room or the library? Yes. And the library for choice. I mean for our choice. Why don't you play? That’s why I won’t tell you. Mom and Dad didn’t have to tell you to be on your best behavior," Howa says, recounting his first impressions of the club. You know dad has a ranch in Colorado. Q: Did you already know how to play pool when you came to Pacific? Chases are forgotten, each player rushes all over the court trying to find a winning opening, and the game as an exposition of scientific graceful play came to an end when Pettitt took this country by storm with the underhand railroad service. This ensures you’re legally allowed to play copyrighted material and can save you from hefty fines down the line. But even if this is true, there can be no doubt that in these days a most unhealthy state of things prevails. "Mr. Vuyning," said he, with the clear, ingenuous smile of the successful "crook," "it’s up to me to go the limit for you any time I can do so.



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