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Not ordinary fear of insult, injury or death, but abject, quivering dread of something that you cannot see-fear that dries the inside of the mouth and half of the throat-fear that makes you sweat in the palms of the hands, arid gulp in order to keep the uvula at work? Occasionally a customer of the house visited Milford, wishing to give a special order for some particular line of goods. Our national game cannot afford to exclude special features. Even when I shut my enlightened eyes the sound was marvellously like that of a fast game. Just like with most games, the player or team with the highest score wins. It has been said, that every match is won by the short game; this, like many much-quoted sayings, is a half-truth. Yes, he had grown callous since coming to North Valley; he had lost that delicacy of feeling, that intuitive understanding of the sentiments of ladies, which he would surely have exhibited a short time earlier in his life.

As I smoked I heard the game begin again-with a miss in baulk this time, for the whirr was a short one. It resembled the game of Loo, and probably derived its name from the ancient sport described above. He could not afford to offend this man, who held in his possession a secret affecting his reputation and good name. The saloon had been very tastefully laid out as a supper-room, and numerous other little chambers were thrown open and brightened up to serve as lounging places for those who were fatigued. Very snug and comfortable it was, with its square tables, each with a fringe of chairs, and the clean shining cards spread out over their green baize surfaces. After that all the well people walked arm-in-arm up and down the long promenade deck, enjoying the fine summer mornings, and the seasick ones crawled out and propped themselves up in the lee of the paddle-boxes and ate their dismal tea and toast, and looked wretched. If you get out, well you have no further opportunity of getting nervous till your second innings comes round, and under no circumstances ought a bowler to be nervous, as one bad ball may always be redeemed by a wicket next ball.

"There they are, down there every night at eight bells, praying for fair winds-when they know as well as I do that this is the only ship going east this time of the year, but there’s a thousand coming west-what’s a fair wind for us is a head wind to them-the Almighty’s blowing a fair wind for a thousand vessels, and this tribe wants him to turn it clear around so as to accommodate one,-and she a steamship at that! There are, in this land, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold, pobby corpses, and hide in trees near the roadside till a traveller passes. If I had the sense to wait till it blew over," he said to himself, "I should have escaped all this: I didn't think Merrill would act so mean. There was Mr. Smith, of the Medical College, rotating round with Miss Clara Timms, their faces wearing that pained and anxious expression which the British countenance naturally assumes when dancing, giving the impression that the legs have suddenly burst forth in a festive mood, and have dragged the rest of the body into it very much against its will. Some holes are in a sort of pot, which, though small just where the hole is, nevertheless has widely expanding sides, and you probably will find your ball dead if you get it into it at all from any distance; but another is on a table-land, where the chief difficulty is not to get the ball on the table-land but to keep it there.

"Yes, it will be worth at least as much as a thousand dollars-when you get it done. In the same way you may go round a hazard instead of trying to get over it. In one sense it was refreshing for an ordinary mortal to see great men fail in the way they did, for we could all flatter ourselves we could quote this instance as a proof of how hard putting was, when we failed ourselves. They made him breathe some gas or other, what is billiards to see what his rabbity spleen would say to it. He was hoping to persuade Percy to see the village under other than company chaperonage; he heard with dismay the announcement that the party had arranged to depart in the course of a couple of hours. And the next room was not big enough to hold a billiard-table! Phil Stark was resolved not to release his hold upon his old acquaintance.