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Shirley wondered, then sniffed the air suspiciously. The girl looked at him with a silent question. "Quick, tear off your glove and let me have that diamond ring I noticed on your finger, the large solitaire, not the dinner ring." Unquestioningly she obeyed. There was a strange Oriental odor in the car suggestive of an incense.
I kept awake, in spite of that ancient dame who hashed up the Civil War, just to see what the next course would be!" His evenings of solitaire and music were awfully nice, but "Brown and Hastings are in college," he told his wife; "and Mort's on a job at his father's mills. I miss 'em like the devil."
Again we hold the Jessamy Bride responsible for this gorgeous splendor of wardrobe. The new wig no doubt is a bag-wig and solitaire, still highly the mode, and in which Goldsmith is represented as figuring when in full dress, equipped with his sword.
On one side of the room was a small pine table where Old Man Hinds walloped himself at solitaire, and on the other side of the room was a larger table, felt-covered, kept sacred to the games of piute and poker, where as much as three dollars sometimes changed hands in a single night.
Littell playing solitaire, and something in his undisguised relief at seeing them made Betty wonder if time did not hang heavily on his hands. After dinner Bobby proposed that they turn on the phonograph and have a little dance among themselves. "Oh, that will be fine!" cried Betty. "Then you can dance?" "A little mother taught me."
When Peregrine returned to his own lodgings, Pipes, seeing the blood trickling down upon his master's neckcloth and solitaire, gave evident tokens of surprise and concern; not for the consequences of the wound, which he did no suppose dangerous, but for the glory of Old England, which he was afraid had suffered in the engagement; for he could not help saying, with an air of chagrin, as he followed the youth into his chamber, "I do suppose as how you gave that lubberly Frenchman as good as he brought."
O'Riley's admirers gave him a solitaire diamond pin of the size of a filbert, in imitation of the liberality of Mr. Weed's friends, and then Mr. O'Riley retired from active service and amused himself with buying real estate at enormous figures and holding it in other people's names. The newspapers clamored, and the courts proceeded to try the new legislators for their small irregularities.
"These," he said, "I shall keep." He ran through the deck several times, playing with them. Unconsciously he counted them. There was something wrong. Jack counted the cards again. The result was the same. "Sir!" he called to von Ludwig. "Well?" "How did you chance to have this pack of cards?" "I play solitaire considerably," was the reply.
"But I don't think I'll trouble you to congratulate me till you see me wearing another solitaire." "We'll hope for the best," he said cheerfully. "If it is the man I think, he is a better man than I am." "Yes, he is," she nodded, without the least hesitation. "I hope you will be happy with him." "I'm likely to be happy without him." "Not unless he is a fool." "Or prefers another lady, as you do."
He held her for an instant's grave, astonished questioning, before which her eyes fell. Her thoughts side-tracked swiftly to long for and to dread what was coming. "Am I being told you must pardon me if I have misunderstood your meaning that you are no longer engaged to Mr. Ridgway?" She made obvious the absence of the solitaire she had worn.
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