card-and-dice

Updated: May 27, 2025

Heed her not! What God takes from us still seems better that what He spares to us; that is to say, men are by nature unthankful and women silly." "And I say Richart and Jacob were the flower of the flock," sobbed Catherine. The little coffer was empty again, and to fill it they gathered like ants. In those days speculation was pretty much confined to the card-and-dice business.

Charles Reade - The Cloister and the Hearth