card-trick

Updated: May 28, 2025

Now, I have here, sir," said the visitor, rattling open his patterns like a card-trick, "some fashions that only come down by post this morning, sir; and I said to myself, `Here's your opportunity. You can't expect a gentleman as has his garments from Servile Row to care about goods as every counter-jumper in Primchilsea has seen. Go and let him have the first selection."

George Manville Fenn - The Queen's Scarlet: The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne