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CHAPTER XI. IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT.
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"Say, Dering, it ain't twelve o'clock yet. You'll give me half an hour in the billiard-room before going to roost?"
Percy Osmond was the speaker. He was getting out of the brougham which had brought the three gentlemen back from Pincote, where they had been dining. His voice was thick, and his gait unsteady. It was evident that he had been indulging too freely in Squire2 Culpepper's old port.
"You've surely had enough billiards3 for one night," said Lionel, good-humouredly. "I should have thought that the thrashing you gave young Cope would have satisfied you till to-morrow morning."
"I want to thrash you as I thrashed him."
"You shall thrash me as much as you like in the morning."
"This is what they call country hospitality!" said Osmond, turning to Kester. "Condemned4 to go to bed at eleven-thirty, like so many virtuous5 peasants in an opera. No more brandy, no more cigars, no more billiards. Nothing but everlasting6 bed. How very good we are in the country!"
Kester laughed. "I told you that you would soon grow tired of the rural districts," he said.
"The rural districts themselves are all very nice and proper. I've nothing to say against them," said Mr. Osmond, as he sat down deliberately7 on the stairs, for they were all in the house by this time. "It's the people who live in them that I complain of. To send your guests to bed at eleven-thirty against their will, and to decline a simple game of billiards with one of them because you're afraid to acknowledge that he's the better player of the two--can this be your old English hospitality?"
"My dear Osmond, I will play you a game of billiards with pleasure, if your mind is so set on it," said Lionel. "I had no idea that you were so entêté in the matter. Come along. I dare say the lamps are still alight."
"Spoken like a nobleman," said Osmond, with tipsy gravity. "I accept your apology. Just order up some brandy and seltzer, there's a good fellow. St. George, you'll come and mark for us?"
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provocation
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brawl
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