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Updated: June 6, 2025
"In that case I should advise you to play cards no more. The remedy is easy," said Paul, dryly. "It isn't so easy to leave off cards," rejoined Sandal, gloomily. "I'm that fond of gambling that I only seem to live when I've got the cards or dice in my hand. I suppose it's like dram-drinking." "If you take my advice, Lord George, you'll give up card-playing."
You've got that sort of influence. I sensed it directly I saw you. You've got that priceless possession a quiet spirit. She wouldn't go tearing over the country racing and gambling and then card-playing far into the night if you were there to pull her up. She'd be ashamed with anyone like you looking on." "Would she?" said Juliet. "I wonder.
Some of the churches denounced dancing and card-playing in no unmeaning terms, while others gave holy sanction to card-parties and charity balls. Some churches were bound down by certain rigid rules which they called creeds; others were very much opposed to these. For every belief there was an "anti."
There were the elaborate meals, the drinking, the card-playing, the motors, the innumerable servants, and the sickening atmosphere of inane sentimentalism between the sexes. Everybody seemed to be having "an affair," and the talk was redolent of innuendo. Adelle had occasion to observe the potency of her lamp in this society.
The fine for selling these cards must have been a dead letter, for we find in the newspapers proof of the prevalence of card-playing. One use for playing-cards other than their intended one was found in their employment to inscribe invitations upon. Ball invitations were frequently written upon the backs of playing-cards, and dinner invitations also.
And because five was a convenient number they all played. Twemlow and Milly were the best performers; Milly's gift for card-playing was notorious in the family. 'Do you ever play poker? Twemlow asked, when the other three had been beggared of counters. 'No, said John, cautiously. 'Not here. 'It's lots of fun, Twemlow went on, looking at the girls. 'Oh, Mr. Twemlow, Milly cried.
They said it would be like that, in shifts of four days, to the end of the war, and that, moreover, one had not to worry. These words comforted the newcomers, adrift here and there in the straw. Their weariness was alleviated. They set about writing and card-playing. That evening I dated my letter to Marie "at the Front," with a flourish of pride.
"Their time is spent in riding, lounging, card-playing, and making merry with their gossips at child-bearings, christenings, churchings, and buryings; and all this conduct the men wink at, because such are the customs of the land. They much commend however the industry and careful habits of the German and Netherland women, who do the work which in England devolves upon the men.
No sooner were these two pirates released from gaol than they found an active friend in Mr. Peter Forbes. He went about it quietly, for obvious reasons, but he felt under great obligation to them for their goodness to his nephew. Just at this time one of the shop-keepers became a bankrupt because of unthrifty habits and too much card-playing.
After a hard day's shearing that is, from five o'clock in the morning to seven at night, going best pace all the time, every man working as hard as if he was at it for his life one would think a man would be too tired to do anything. But we were mostly strong and hearty, and at that age a man takes a deal of killing; so we used to have a little card-playing at night to pass away the time.
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