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Updated: July 13, 2025
At an exhibition of a menagerie in one of our principal cities, not long since, when the crowd of spectators was the greatest, a little girl, who had fed the elephant with sundry cakes and apples from her bag, drew out her ivory card-case, which fell unobserved in the saw-dust of the ring.
Yes; the man was a gentleman; there was no doubt of that. "Would not tomorrow do? I am rather engaged today." He had his card-case ready, and without answering her at once, he came up the steps and handed it to her. The name meant nothing at all to her. "Will not tomorrow...?" she began again. "Tomorrow will be too late," said the old gentleman. "I beg of you, Lady Laura.
He had carelessly shown her a card-case with a coronet, and had confided in her that he had been forced to resign from a crack cavalry regiment for fighting a duel about a Countess; and as a result of these confidences she had pledged herself to him, and bestowed on him her pink pearl ring in exchange for one of twisted silver, which he said the Countess had given him on her deathbed with the request that he should never take it off till he met a woman more beautiful than herself.
You are an Englishman, it would appear, and it is therefore quite possible that you may have no friends here to see you through your quarrel. Should such be the case, I shall esteem myself honoured if you will permit me to place my services at your disposal. I have the pleasure to offer you my card, Senor." So saying, he produced a card-case, and, extracting a card therefrom, tendered it to Jack.
Now: will you please tell the man where to go?" The dismissal was unanswerable. He took out his card-case and scribbled on a card. "Where is your luggage?" he asked. "Not here," she said briefly. "I thought not," he smiled again. "I am discerning, am I not? Well, perhaps you didn't know that respectable hotels prefer travellers who have luggage. But they know me at this place.
The reader of the Neue Freie Presse, preparing to leave his table, tore from the newspaper an article that seemed to have attracted him, placed it in his card-case, and walked toward the door. The eyes of Arthur Singleton lighted in recognition, and the attaché, muttering an apology to the Claibornes, addressed the young gentleman cordially.
Maud had her tiny card-case, and paid calls, "like mamma and Fan"; her box of dainty gloves, her jewel-drawer, her crimping-pins, as fine and fanciful a wardrobe as a Paris doll, and a French maid to dress her.
'Then home, said Michael, with the same cheerfulness. 'Where to, sir? 'I don't remember, I'm sure, said Michael, entering the vehicle, 'drive Shcotlan' Yard and ask. 'But you'll have a card, said the man, through the little aperture in the top, 'give me your card-case. 'What imagi imagination in a cabby! cried the lawyer, producing his card-case, and handing it to the driver.
Benson, you have been wrapped in so much mystery, so much deceit, so much lying and treachery that I won't even have you guess whether I am telling you the truth. Here is my card-case. Take out a card for yourself." The request was so much like a command that Benson obeyed. On the card, in Old English script, he read: "Miss Daisy Huston."
The two men drew near, and having dismounted, turned the poor thing over, and feeling the faint beating of the heart, with no more ado than if they were setting down to food, undid one of the goatskins from the nearest camel, and soaking the flowing bernous until it dripped with the precious water, wrapped the body in its folds; and collecting the gold watch, money and card-case strewn upon the sands, slipped everything back into a waistcoat pocket with the exception of a three day old programme announcing a cotillion at Shepherd's Hotel, a sketch of which hideous building was elaborately and mendaciously reproduced on the cover, so that to the mind of uneducated Yussuf, unversed in the English tongue, there was but one thing to do, and that to go straight to the well-known caravanserai with his burden, and deliver it safely into the proprietor's hands.
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