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Then, this morning behold! the Roxmouth wedding cards!" She took a silver-bordered envelope lying on a little table close beside her, and drawing out from it the cards in question, held them up to his view. Walden glanced at them with a touch of contempt. "Shall I wire our united heartiest congratulations?" he queried, smiling "And add that we are engaged to be married?"
I had stopped at the Santa Anna Hotel, a small hostelry lately built, having an English landlord, and therefore greatly frequented by Englishmen. On the night of my arrival there had been a serious disturbance in the house. Three men who had been stopping at the place got quarrelling over a game of cards which they were playing in a private parlour.
Just look at Ed! I'm getting so that I can hardly endure Ed!" In reply to John's great outburst of sorrow, Will had no words of sympathy to offer. John was pleased with the suggestion; but he said, "I haven't any cards." As usual, however, he was quick to invent a way out of that difficulty and added: "Hey, Will! why couldn't we make some?
"That's all right. Well, then Major what did we say? Trustcott? Ah, yes, Trustcott. Well, then, I think we might add 'Eleventh Hussars'; that's near enough. The final catastrophe was, I think, cards. Not that I cheated, you understand. I will allow no man to say that of me. But that was what was said.
She had trump cards which she played at this point. Two gaudily coloured "Sunday Supplements" of a certain newspaper combination in the United States were spread before me. The first told of how Anton Lang had become a machine-gunner of marked ability, and that he served his deadly weapon with determination.
In houses robbed by them they leave, by way of visiting cards, excrement in beds, on tables, and in cupboards. They are sometimes unnaturally vicious. In a village of Limbourg they burnt in a stable a stallion valued at 50,000 francs, and "forced the farmer, his wife and children to witness the crime on their knees with their arms raised."
Oh, no one can hear us. If you win you go off a free man with my thousand. If you lose, you put me in possession one of these fine nights. Now, that is an offer. What do you say to it? A single game to decide." The younger man's face reddened. He turned; his eyes sought the table and the cards; he stood irresolute.
But in addition, the Sunday offerings of all those who place their contributions in envelopes at the morning and evening service and sign their names, are entered on cards, and when it is remembered that the basket collections alone for the year 1904 amounted to $6,995.00, it can be seen that this is no light task. But The Temple appreciates what is given it, and likes to keep a record.
As society and card-leaving thus become rapidly complicated, a lady should have a visiting-book, into which her list is carefully copied, with spaces for days and future engagements. A servant must be taught to receive the cards at the door, remember messages, and recollect for whom they are left, as it is not proper in calling upon Mrs. Brown at a private house to write her name on your card.
He can see for himself that he can't lose. He's got sharp eyes." The bystanders here were stationed before a man sitting at a low tripod table; and all that he had was the small table a plain cheap table with folding legs and three playing cards. Business was a trifle slack.
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