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HANDICAP (from the expression hand in cap, referring to drawing lots), a disadvantageous condition imposed upon the superior competitor in sports and games, or an advantage allowed the inferior, in order to equalize the chances of both. I allowed him privileges, as to suggest dishes, and would give him information, as that some one had startled me in the reading-room by slamming a door. So, recalling that a caster was off a chair yesterday, one is entitled to make sure that it is on to-day before sitting down. These said that the choir would keep up their lacerating attempts at melody until they would bring down a storm some day that would sink the ship. The gentlemen then discussed over their glasses the state of unrest in the country, the impertinence of the present day Bengalis, the remissness of the Government in not adopting sterner measures and the criminal folly of the "White Babus" in Parliament in encouraging native lawlessness by their foolish questions. He had a sudden vision of the white colonial mansion on the mountain-side, with its doors and windows thrown wide, and the strains of an orchestra floating out. Her father, she knew, had instructed Avery that Eaton was to be introduced as his guest; but Avery evidently had either carried out these instructions in a purely mechanical manner or had not wished Eaton to be with others unless he himself was by; for Harriet discovered Eaton standing off by himself.

Why Eaton had played at all; why he had been afraid to refuse the invitation to play, she could not know; but sympathy and fear for him swept over her, as she comprehended that it was to Avery the betrayal had been made and that Avery, for some purpose of his own, was withholding this betrayal to make use of it as he saw fit. If nature did not provide bunkers, the game would be so dull without them, and it would be so easy to make them, that made they would be, and made difficult. This match ended the dominance of Roberts Sr., as a wave of new players took over the game. But in considering the question as to the top players outside those on whom is stamped genius, there is not very much to choose. There were those among the unregenerated who attributed the unceasing head-winds to our distressing choir-music.

Between me and a certain member who smacks his lips twelve times to a dozen of them William knew I liked a screen to be placed until we had reached the soup, and yet he gave me the oysters and the other man my sardine. We gave up dancing, finally. But nobody ever sang by moonlight on the upper deck, and the congregational singing at church and prayers was not of a superior order of architecture. I put up with it as long as I could, and then joined in and tried to improve it, but this encouraged young George to join in too, and that made a failure of it; because George’s voice was just "turning," and when he was singing a dismal sort of base, it was apt to fly off the handle and startle every body with a most discordant cackle on the upper notes. An attempt was made to organize a debating club, but it was a failure. Will the Government of India be angry? It will provoke remark. Probably he was rheumatic, but I cannot say for certain, as I never thought of asking, and he had the sense to see that the knowledge would be offensive to me.

I was even unaware whether they slept downstairs or had their own homes; nor had I the interest to inquire of other members, nor they the knowledge to inform me. What prompted me to do so was not personal interest in him, but a desire to see whether I dare let him wait on me again. For a short time the position of honorary secretary was held by Colonel Carter, What is a billiards club who still retains a warm interest in the Club and is always ready to devote both his time and experience to furthering the interests of the members. Happening to stand for some time at the foot of the street, I chanced to see the girl Jenny coming, and-No; let me tell the truth, though the whole club reads: I was waiting for her. The club's motto, Dum vivimus vivamus (while we live, let us live) is Epicurean. Let me tell, in the measured words of one describing a past incident, what then took place. In these words William had flung off the mask, and now I knew him for what he was. I detest oysters, and no one knew it better than William.