But on inquiry I was very glad to find that one of the two beds in the room was unoccupied and at my disposal.

It was a rather large, but comfortless-looking house, evidently concentrating all its entertainment for travellers in the tap-room.

After considerable hesitation, the landlady consented to give me bed and board; and directed "the lassie" to make a fire for me in a large and very respectable room on the second floor.

A staircase in the south-east room leads to the roof, from which a fine view of the city and surrounding country can be obtained.

The first room on the ground floor is panelled into numerous recesses for keeping books, documents, or valuables.

[Illustration: Letter L.] Little Lucy was left in the room once alone, Where the table was set out for tea; She looked all around, and she thought to herself That no one was there who could see.

"And when the silver moonshine Fills all my room with light, And when the stars are shining, So countless and so bright.

At this noise the two Friars waked and wondered to see the whole room so full of smoke, but that being vanished, they might perceive the Brazen Head broken and lying on the ground.

Space is more than room wherein to move about; it is, first of all, the room in which we think, and upon how we do so depends the number of its dimensions.

Clearly, he had only to keep in his room in his hotel in order to have a great experience.

They were very quiet, this pair that sat at the next table in the dining- room of a London hotel.

From his seat before a series of maps on a sitting-room table an officer of about thirty-five rose to receive us.

Looked after by a brave man attendant in another room were the wounded who were too horrible to see; who must die.

When I asked for a room with a bath in a leading Berlin hotel, the clerk at the desk said, "I will see, sir."

He ran his eye up and down the list methodically before he added: "Yes, we have a good room on the second floor."

The small dining-room only was open, and every effort was made to make the small dining-room appear normal.

The small dining-room only was open, and every effort was made to make the small dining-room appear normal.

He was an efficient clerk; the buttons who opened the room door, a goose-stepping, alert sprout of German militarism, exhibiting a punctiliousness of attention which produced a further effect of normality.

Officers with close- cropped heads, wearing Iron Crosses, some with arms in slings, promenaded in the refreshment room of the Berlin Opera House between the acts.

A story is told of how that hotel had filled with officers after the arrival of the Germanic flood and how one day, when it was learned that the proprietor was a Frenchman, guards were suddenly placed at the doors and the hall was filled with luggage as every officer, acting with characteristic official solidarity, vacated his room and bestowed his presence elsewhere.

These little accidents will by no means dash his spirits, or impair his volubility in the smoking-room, where he may be heard conducting a dull discussion on sporting records, or carrying on an animated controversy about powder, size of shot or bore, choke, the proper kind of gaiter, or the right stamp of horse for the country.

And the remainder of the day was devoted (by those who could find room on the island) in equal proportions to smoke and enthusiasm.

OLD MORALITY just come in, in serge suit; left his straw hat in his room; off shortly on cruise in Pandora; already shipped store of nautical phrases.

Delightful Beefsteak Room!

I think perhaps the best plan will be for the two principals to accompany me into my private room, to give a practical exemplification of the manner in which such a contest is generally conducted.