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It possessed a small stage, set up in one of the dining-halls, where plays were acted, a Christmas pantomime performed, and a variety entertainment given every week. There were whist drives with attractive prizes for the winners. Duty was light.
Miss Mary Wallace plays as good a hand at Whist, as a woman should, Mr. Worden; and a very pretty accomplishment it is, for a lady to possess; useful, sir, as well as entertaining; for anything is preferable to dummy.
Grant and her sister, that after making up the whist-table there would remain sufficient for a round game, and everybody being as perfectly complying and without a choice as on such occasions they always are, speculation was decided on almost as soon as whist; and Lady Bertram soon found herself in the critical situation of being applied to for her own choice between the games, and being required either to draw a card for whist or not.
He asks Lydgate all sorts of questions and then screws up his face while he hears the answers, as if they were pinching his toes. That's his way. Ah, here comes my grilled bone." "But how came you to stay out so late, my dear? You only said you were going to your uncle's." "Oh, I dined at Plymdale's. We had whist. Lydgate was there too." "And what do you think of him?
The modern spirit of unrest had, so it seemed to me, retreated to some incredible distance. Lord Houghton, Father Charles, one of the daughters of the house, and I invariably beguiled the evenings with a rubber of modest whist.
Whist, as all good players know, is a game that requires close attention, and almost absolute silence; and the other games can be much disturbed by talking. To converse with those who are not playing is still worse. It is a violation of all courtesy to allow the attention to be diverted at all.
"She'll sell addled eggs over all our tombstones; that is to say, if she minds what I bid her. When was your last spasm?" "No longer agone that yestereen, ma'am; and so I said to my master, 'The doctor he is due to-morrow, Sally up at Albion tells me; and " "Whist! whist! who cares what you said to Jack, and Jill said to you? What was the cause?" "The cause! What, of my pain?
As it is, the public will fancy that we are all daubed with the same brush: that we have no thought in life beyond dress, money, and solo whist." "He probably painted the life he knew," said Sidney Graham, in defence. "Then I am sorry for him," retorted Mrs. Goldsmith. "It's a great pity he had such detestable acquaintances.
He liked large things, mountains, elms, great oaks, mighty bulls and oxen, wide fields, the ocean, the Union, and all things of magnitude. Homer he never cared much for, nor, indeed, anything Greek. He hated, he loathed, the act of writing. Billiards, ten-pins, chess, draughts, whist, he never relished, though fond to excess of out-door pleasures, like hunting, fishing, yachting.
Yet they, too, keep on with their indifferent love-making with the same fatal human weakness which sees me brave the baleful light in my partner's eyes night after night when I am in a whist-playing community. Many men make love because the girl is convenient and they happen to think about it. It never would occur to me to hunt up three people at a country-house and ask them to play whist.
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