From the other end of the hall came the occasional click of billiard balls.

Lady Caroom and her host were playing a leisurely game interspersed with conversation.
"Who is this young Mr.Brooks ?" she asked, pausing to chalk her cue.
"A solicitor from Medchester," he answered.

"He was Parliamentary agent for Henslow, and I am going to give him a management of my estates." "He is quite a boy," she remarked.
"Twenty-six or seven," he answered.

"How well you play those cannons.
"I ought to.

I had lessons for years.