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Updated: June 19, 2025
Once it's known that his firm is behind us no one will attempt to touch our patent. People aren't such fools as to start playing beggar-my-neighbour with Ascher, Stutz & Co. The whole world knows that their firm has money enough to go on paying lawyers right on until the day of judgment." "I hope to goodness," I said, "that we shan't meet lawyers then." Gorman smiled.
Our table is in the corner here, where the gentlemen can have their wineglass of negus, and their egg-sandwich, and their quiet game at beggar-my-neighbour, and look on. As for us, ma'am, we shall have quite enough to do to manage the company. 'O, indeed, you may say so! Quite enough, ma'am, said Mrs. Orange. The company began to come.
Joanna herself was growing to be quite fond of cards, though in her heart she did not think that for sheer excitement bridge was half as good as beggar-my-neighbour, which she used to play with Mene Tekel, in the old days before she and Mene both became dignified, the one as mistress, the other as maid.
'But there are rules ... even in beggar-my-neighbour, said the Counsellor. Blivinski kicked the rug softly from his feet as the carriage drew up. 'One rule, only one, he remarked; 'Britain loves to feign the Pharisee. We smile we others because we understand that her rule and ours is after all the same self-interest.
Not all the seductions of loo, limited to three pence, nor even that most appropriately designated game, beggar-my-neighbour could withdraw him from his blest retreat. Like his countryman, St. Kevin my friend Petrie has ascertained that the saint was a native of Tralee he fled from the temptations of the world, and the blandishments of the fair; but, alas! like the saint himself, the
Counsellor's reply was characteristic, and justified his companion's opinion of his race. 'Damaged so they say. Blivinski considered the dreary landscape. 'We must not believe all we hear. In diplomatic relations, my friend, ethics cease to exist. Diplomacy is after all a simple game even elementary a magnificent beggar-my-neighbour which we continue to play into eternity.
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