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The three views here before us may be familiarly exemplified by supposing the sugar to be a card-house.
So we packed our food, sacks, blankets, mackintoshes and the card-house as best we could on the remaining five horses. No sooner had we left the village, and all signs of road or bridle path, with a new policeman and two or three ragged Albanians, than one of the horses broke loose and began to dance first the tango, then the waltz.
And now that our card-house of high finance has gone to smash, I realize more than ever that I've got to be at peace with my own soul and on speaking terms with my own husband.
It is, in short, as pretty a toy penitentiary as you could see anywhere, and looks more like an Isle of Wight gentleman's fortress, copied after the most approved Wyattville pattern of baronial mansion, with a little touch of the card-house. In short, it is as fine as you can conceive, and sets off the village wonderfully well.
Mine, by the bonds that bind us more Than all the oaths the priest before; Mine, by the concord of content, When heart with heart is music-blent; When, as sweet sounds in unison, Two lives harmonious melt in one! A bel esprit, who whispered "Fame," And shook my card-house to the ground. What have I now instead of all The Eden lost of hearth and hall? What comforts for the heaven bereft?
Ay, sir, cried he, warming with the theme, 'once I can get my countrymen fully awakened to the fact of who and what are the men who rule them, I'll ask for no Catholic Associations, or Repeal Committees, or Nationalist Clubs the card-house of British supremacy will tumble of itself; there will be no conflict, but simply submission.
According to Stahl, the ferment is somebody who knocks the table, and shakes the card-house down; according to Fabroni, the ferment takes out some cards, but puts others in their places; according to Thénard, the ferment simply takes a card out of the bottom story, the result of which is that all the others fall.
And he had been on the brink of believing himself grown indifferent, and stronger in common sense. Fool that he was! Only a word was needed to bring his card-house down. The placidity of the past weeks had been a mere coating of thin ice, which had given way beneath the first test.
His goal was a monastery in Montenegro, where he said they would house and feed him for the winter in exchange for a little work. At 11.30 three horses were brought. Three more were promised, so we reluctantly decided to start the next day. There was nothing to do. Our carriages went. We gave the corporal a card-house to take back to Rashka with little faith that he would not try to stick to it.
But suppose he cannot lift the great stone a, or suppose I will not give it to him, but only the two smaller stones at b, b; he will doubtless try to put them up, tilted against each other, as at d. Very awkward this; worse than card-house building. But if he cuts off the corners of the stones, so as to make each of them of the form e, they will stand up very securely, as at B.
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