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The glaring gaslight gave him a deeper paleness and cut the lines of his face to a sharper edge. He was talking with great animation, his hands moving constantly in eager gesture. I was within an ace of springing forward to greet him so my heart went out to him but the sight of his companion restrained me, and I sat chuckling and wondering in my corner.
The doll with the beautiful blue buckles on her shoes had now a mop of darky wool, and a face as black as the ace of spades. Julia's quick wit at once jumped at the correct conclusion regarding the apparent blunder. The toy-mender's two thoughtless apprentices had played a joke upon the little cashgirl. "It is only the nonsense of those rogues upstairs.
Surely the man who aided towards such results must be a man, even if his complexion be that of the ace of spades; and what he says in relation to the events in which he was an actor, even if it have no romantic interest, which, however, it has to an eminent degree, must be an important contribution to the history of the time.
It was burning low, and scarcely thinking, I put on a little coal. The noise of this brought him up at once, and he stood aglare. He peered about the room and was within an ace of touching me. Even after that examination, he scarcely seemed satisfied. He stopped in the doorway and took a final inspection before he went down.
It was always ace of trumps, and Harriet only blamed herself for ever beginning a conversation with anything else. Now she retired from the field with all honours, forcing herself to dismiss the unpleasant memory the instant she was out of reach of Madame Carter's voice. But the old lady fumed for an hour, and took up the subject with her son when he came dutifully in to take her down to dinner.
All that I know of the woman is that she has travelled pretty well over the world; that some six or eight months ago she was in Ceylon with a er a certain member of her crew, and came within an ace of falling foul of the law. She had put up a plan to loot the depository of the Pearl Fisheries Company at a period when there were thousands of pounds worth of gems awaiting transport.
To begin with, the Squire and his condescending way of doing business irritated him very much, so much that once or twice in the course of the conversation he was within an ace of breaking the whole thing off, and only restrained himself with difficulty from doing so.
"People never know how to arrange themselves," she declared. "And I decline any responsibility of that sort. The Fates shall decide for us. It will be infinitely more satisfactory in the end." And Hone could only bow to her ruling. Nina Perceval was the first to draw. Her card was the ace of hearts. She slung it round her neck in accordance with Mrs.
We are going out up on the boulevard." "Yes, yes!" cried the dense crowd at the windows, "a galop to the Barriere Saint Jacques!" "It will soon be time for them to shorten the two motts!" "The executioner throws a double ace; it is low!" "Accompanied by the French horn!" "We will dance the cotillon by the guillotine!" "Go ahead of the women without any head!" cried Tortillard.
"'Well, says I, 'I shall descend upon it in two flies, not counting odd chips. Shall we cut? "He shoved out a deck. I cut a four-spot. It come to me all of a sudden how futeel is human endeavors, how fleetin' is man's hopes, for we was playin' it high man wins. And then he cut a three-specker, and talked unwisely. Then he cut a king, and a soft smile lighted his face. I cut an ace.
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