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Updated: June 6, 2025
In the fall and winter very many people spent their evenings in card-playing or aimlessly strolling up and down the main street. These facts came to Philip's knowledge gradually, and he was not long in making up his mind that Christ would not keep silent before the facts.
"And all the time you've left her here neglected, while you were taking your amusement in London! You've been dinner-giving and Richmond-going, and theatre-frequenting, and card-playing, and race-horsing and I shouldn't wonder but you've been cock-fighting, and a hundred other things as disreputable, and have come down here worn to a skeleton!"
I cannot judge it, I do not even care for it, except as it has done this; and I can hardly conceive of a literary self-respect in these days compatible with the old trade of make-believe, with the production of the kind of fiction which is too much honored by classification with card-playing and horse-racing.
They took a large house in Hill street, then the extremity of the West End, which became the resort of that class who, being anxious to put an end to eternal card-playing and introduce rather more of the intellectual into social intercourse, received from a chance circumstance the name of "blue-stockings." There were to be seen Burke, Fox, Hannah More, Johnson, Lord Lyttelton, etc.
Card-playing, after all, is a slow business, unless you put money on it, and, besides, if you are in a bank and are handling money all day, gambling has a fascination. I've seen Pupkin and Mallory Tompkins and Joe Milligan, the dentist, and Mitchell the ticket agent, and the other "boys" sitting round the table with matches enough piled up in front of them to stock a factory.
And because you boys have not the experience to determine the difference between a mere game and a gamble, card-playing is forbidden you, and rightly so. Now, let us consider what has happened. A stupid foolish fellow, playing with boys infinitely cleverer than himself, has lost a sum of money which he could not pay.
She is aunt of that polisson of a Castlewood, who never pays his play-debts, unless he is more honourable in his dealings with you than he has been with me. Mr. W. is de bonne race. We must have him of our society, if it be only that I may win my money back from him. "He has had the devil's luck here, and has been winning everything, whilst his old card-playing beldam of an aunt has been losing.
He bought devotional books, read the Bible assiduously, and on one occasion, when exasperated by some teasing, he relieved his feelings, as he tells us, by pouring out in his solitude the menaces of Psalm cxviii; but he was also passionately fond of card-playing, novel-reading, and the theatre; he was two or three times intoxicated, and he confesses with much penitence to "a sensual passion" for fruits and cakes.
Description of my House at Jala-Jala Storms, Gales, and Earthquakes Reforming the Banditti Card-playing Tagal Cock-fighting Skirmishes with Robbers Courage of my Wife Our Domestic Happiness Visits from Europeans Their Astonishment at our Civilisation Visit to a Sick Friend at Manilla Tour through the Provinces of the Ilocos and Pangasinan Indians My Reception by the Tinguians Their Appearance and Habits Manners and Customs Indian Fête at Laganguilan y Madalag Horrible Ceremonies to Celebrate a Victory Songs and Dances Our Night-watch We Explore our Cabin Discovery of a Secret Well Tomb of the Tinguian Indians.
A fire was started up and the outlaws for the guerrillas were nothing less proceeded to make themselves comfortable by lying around, drinking, smoking, and playing cards. Gendron was not badly wounded, and sat up to look on at the card-playing. So the hours wore away. Toward night a scout went out to learn what the armies were doing, and he did not come back until the next day.
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