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"No," he answered, choking a little, as might a card-player who, having been dealt a splendid hand, and having played it with flawless skill, has yet damn it! lost the odd trick. "Balliol is quite near. At the end of this street in fact. I can show it to you from the front-door." Yes, he had controlled himself. But this, he furiously felt, did not make him look the less a fool.
Stranger. "Did I not tell you that I was skilful in all games of mingled skill and chance? It requires an arithmetical head for that: a first-rate card-player is a financier spoilt. I am certain that you never could find a man fortunate on the turf or at the gaining-table who had not an excellent head for figures.
We reached Glacier Park without difficulty, although Tish insisted on talking to the most ordinary people on the train, and once, losing her, we found her in the drawing-room learning to play bridge, although not a card-player, except for casino.
I couldn't conceive what had induced Kolosov to bring me.... I have never been a good card-player; but on that occasion I was aware myself that I was playing excruciatingly badly. 'No! the retired lieutenant repeated continually, you can't hold a candle to Sevastianovitch! No! you play carelessly! I, you may be sure, was inwardly wishing him at the devil.
"Lester, Lester; that man! A fine lot he knows about what is good for a child. A card-player, a whisky-drinker!" "Now, hush, papa; I won't have you talk like that," Jennie would reply warmly. "He's a good man, and you know it." "Yes, yes, a good man. In some things, maybe. Not in this. No." He went away groaning. When Lester was near he said nothing, and Vesta could wind him around her finger.
"Nothing can make matters worse than they are," she thought, despairingly, as Arnold dealt the cards for her. "Nothing can justify my inflicting my own wretchedness on this kind-hearted boy!" Two worse players never probably sat down to a game. Anne's attention perpetually wandered; and Anne's companion was, in all human probability, the most incapable card-player in Europe.
It is irrefutable that in all affairs outside of his business, in all matters that occur eternally and commonly between man and man, this thieving card-player was so generous, so just, so moral, that, in a contest, he could have put to flight the consciences of nine-tenths of the citizens of Romper.
If, on the other hand, it should become necessary for me to marry the young lady, which God forbid, at least no harm is done, and he will have had the advantage of some valuable lessons from the most accomplished card-player in Spain. "And now what we need to enliven this detestable place is the presence of Beauty herself.
Yet how could evil come to me, even should the American do him in the eye rather frightfully? In truth, I had not the faintest belief that the Honourable George would win the game. He fancies himself a card-player, though why he should, God knows. At bridge with him every hand is a no-trumper. I need not say more. Also it occurred to me that the American would be a person not accustomed to losing.
"Ef you want to know who salted Chet Diamond, the worst blackleg, trickster and card-player in Dakota, all you've got to do is to go and ask him!" "Hold!" cried Harry Redburn, stepping out from behind Harris; "I'll hide behind no man's shoulder. I salted the gambler if you call shooting salting and I'm not afraid to repeat the action by salting a dozen more just of his particular style."
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