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Bear with me; let me swear at you, lad! It's all I can do." He spread out his fat hands imploringly, recrossing his enormous legs on the card-table. "I can't fight, George; I would gladly, but I'm too fat. Don't grudge me a few kindly oaths now and then. It's all I can do." I was seized with a fit of laughter, utterly uncontrollable.
M. d'Argy was wounded in the right arm, and for the present the affair is terminated, but it is said it will be resumed on M. d'Argy's recovery, although this seems hardly probable, considering the very slight cause of the quarrel an altercation at the Cercle de la Rue Boissy d'Anglas, which took place over the card-table.
There was young Lord Buttercup, the son of the Earl of Woolantallow, only a few months older than Silverbridge, who was already a junior lord, and as constant at his office, or during the Session on the Treasury Bench, as though there were not a pack of hounds or a card-table in Great Britain!
I should be the last person to esteem a gentleman less because he was poor." MRS. DALE. "I wonder the squire does not ask Signor Riccabocca here more often. Such an acquisition we find him!" The squire's voice from the card-table. "Whom ought I to ask more often, Mrs. Dale?" Parson's voice, impatiently. "Come, come, come, squire: play to my queen of diamonds, do!"
It was there that the General usually played cards and slept during his fetes. A small card-table was placed before a divan. Except this addition, the boudoir preserved its every-day aspect. Woman's work, half finished, books, journals, and reviews were strewn upon the furniture. They played two or three games, which the General won, as Camors was very abstracted.
It was there that the General usually played cards and slept during his fetes. A small card-table was placed before a divan. Except this addition, the boudoir preserved its every-day aspect. Woman's work, half finished, books, journals, and reviews were strewn upon the furniture. They played two or three games, which the General won, as Camors was very abstracted.
"Spare yourself the trouble and annoyance. Tell the vicomte that at my levee to-morrow morning I will speak to him. I shall expect you this evening, comte, to join my card-table." "I am in traveling-costume, sire." "A day will come, I hope, when you will leave me no more.
At nine-thirty he pulled the edge of Anthony's blanket and spoke a few terse words Anthony never remembered clearly what they were and rather suspected they were deprecative; then he served breakfast on a card-table in the front room, made the bed and, after asking with some hostility if there was anything else, withdrew. In the mornings, at least once a week, Anthony went to see his broker.
His eyes were not looking at anything in particular. Horatio Bysshe Waddington seemed to be absorbed in some solemn thought. His wife's portrait hung over the card-table in the other recess. Barbara hoped he would be nice; she hoped he would be interesting, since she had to be his secretary. But, of course, he would be. Anybody so enchanting as Fanny could never have married him if he wasn't.
That is why Wellington is stripping the French line of penetration as bare of sustenance as this card-table. If we assume the existence of the barrier an impassable line of fortifications encountered within many marches of the frontier we may also assume that starvation will be the overwhelming force that will cut off the French retreat." The other's keen eyes flickered.
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