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"Morrel," said the count, "have you ever seen me fire a pistol?" "Never." "Well, we have time; look." Monte Cristo took the pistols he held in his hand when Mercedes entered, and fixing an ace of clubs against the iron plate, with four shots he successively shot off the four sides of the club. At each shot Morrel turned pale.

"I like that 'normous big tent an' that tiny little one I like that balloon man I like that little darky baby isn't he black as the ace of space, Miss Theodosia! Oh, I like every blade o' sawdust!" Her laugh trilled out gayly. "But we haven't seen it yet the show." "Miss Theodosia! You don't honest mean we're goin' in? Stefana, she does she means! We're goin' in!" As of course they were.

When hundreds of high-minded men had fought duels about a jostle with the elbow or the ace of spades, the whole world need not have gone wild over my one little wildness. Plenty of other people have killed themselves between then and now. But all England has gone into captivity in order to take us captive. All England has turned into a lunatic asylum in order to prove us lunatics.

"What Duke, milksop! Why, who should I mean but the Duke that won Hochstedt and Ramilies: the Ace of Trumps, my dear, that saved the Queen of Hearts, the good Queen Anne, so bravely. What Duke should I mean but John o' Marlborough." "I have seen him," I said, with childish gravity. "Seen him! when and where, loblolly-boy? You're too young to have been a drummer."

Like a gigantic drop of quicksilver this second globe appeared its smooth and highly-polished surface one enormous, perfect, spherical mirror. Watching tensely, they saw flash out that frightful plane of seething energy, with the effects of which they were all too familiar, and saw it strike full upon the dazzling ball. "This is awful, ace!" Stevens groaned.

He rapidly took up his opponent's hand and spread them face up before the astonished eyes of the gambler. There were only three, instead of four aces, with a jack and deuce. "I had you beat on the showdown, Bart. Really, I am surprised!" Then to the profane delight of Red, he carelessly opened his hand, exposing the missing ace which he had adroitly palmed.

They just call a man an Ace when he is a real graduate flyer, and gets the habit of bringing down his Boche when he goes after him." Every conversation around that part of the world seemed to have a grim flavor. The Brighton boys were getting nearer to actual war every minute, they felt. The boys found a row of S.P.A.D. machines not far distant.

However, this was no time to bother about such minor things when the main issue was whether he was destined to "get" the ex-war ace, or the other put him out of action when the battle was on. Perk shifted his gun so that its muzzle kept following the moving seaplane in its advance.

Samuel and David duly appealed to, reduced the amount to two pounds five and two pounds respectively. Then, having got everybody's attention fixed upon her, she exclaimed: "Thirty shillings!" She could not resist nibbling off the five shillings. Everybody drew a long breath. "Tu! Tu!" they ejaculated in chorus. "What a Metsiah!" "Sam," said Ephraim immediately afterwards, "You turned up the ace."

By this time Parkins had turned and thrown his cards so that everybody knew or thought he knew where the ace was. Smith, the man with the white hat, now rose five dollars more and offered to bet fifteen. But Parkins was more indignant than ever. He told Smith to go away. He thrust his hand into his pocket and drew out a handful of twenty-dollar gold-pieces.