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During the play not a word was spoken by either party, the two sheiks squatting opposite each other, and making their moves with as much gravity as a pair of chess-players engaged in some grand tournament of this intellectual game.
Just look at the chess-players. Leaving out the phenomenal exceptions, the nice shades that separate the skilful ones show how closely their brains approximate, almost as closely as chronometers. Such a person is a "knight-player," he must have that piece given him. Another must have two pawns. Another, "pawn and two," or one pawn and two moves.
Poor Clara! she was really very unobtrusive and very modest, but there had been constant sympathy between her and her father, not the dumb sympathy as between man and dog, but that which can manifest itself in human fashion. Clara and her father were both chess-players, and at the time at which our history begins, Clara had been teaching Madge the game for about six months. 'Check! said Clara.
Herkimer began to speak of one thing and another, of Bennett, who had gone dramatically to the Transvaal; of Le Gage, who was now in the forefront of the younger group of landscapists; of the old types that still came faithfully to the Café des Lilacs, the old chess-players, the fat proprietor, with his fat wife and three fat children who dined there regularly every Sunday, of the new revolutionary ideas among the younger men that were beginning to assert themselves.
He bowed, grasping my hand, evidently loath to take his eyes off the chess-players "I read some of your poems the other day," I added "My poems?" he asked, coloring "Yes; I had heard of them, and as I happened to be at the Astor Library I asked for your three volumes. I read several things in each of them. I liked them tremendously." He blushed again.
His glances followed the fairest form; his clasp lingered in the softest hand; his voice trembled as the warm breath of his partner came on his cheeks. Meanwhile the conversation between the chess-players continued. "Yes," said the baronet, "it depends only on Lucretia. And she seems pleased with Vernon: who would not be?" "Your penetration rarely deceives you, sir. I own I think with you.
I thought of the fine things which were said in the learned circle or academy of the Great Unforgettable, when we played with words and thoughts, like chess-players with their pieces. "What is man?" asked our teacher, our wisest, Alcuin, whom we called Flaccus.
Vulgar chess-players have to play their game out; nothing short of the brutality of an actual checkmate satisfies their dull apprehensions. But look at two masters of that noble game! White stands well enough, so far as you can see; but Red says, Mate in six moves; White looks, nods; the game is over.
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