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Updated: May 29, 2025
At last, perhaps in an unexpected moment, one, two, three adverse moves follow each other, and the decisive words, check-mate, are uttered. This is a symbol of what often goes on in the game of life. Here is a man going on, indefinitely, conscious in his own heart that he is not happy in his domestic relations. There is a want of union between him and his wife.
Quoth he, 'I did but lead thee on, that thou mightest think thyself skilful; but set up again, and I will show thee. So they placed the pieces a second time, and he said to himself, 'Open thine eyes, or she will beat thee. And he fell to moving no piece, save after calculation, and ceased not to play, till she said, 'Check-mate. When he saw this, he was confounded at her quickness and skill; but she laughed and said, 'O master, I will make a wager with thee on this third game.
"Quite right," answered Thorndyke, and then, having introduced me, he continued: "We were partners in the last game, but we are on opposite sides of the board this time." "Yes," agreed Mr. Singleton; "and we are going to give you check-mate." He unlocked a drawer and drew forth a small portfolio, from which he extracted a piece of paper which he laid on the table.
No other," continued Mr. Flint with a sudden burst, "than Crowther & Jenkins!" "The devil! and the niece then is" "Catherine Arnold Tom Linden's wife supposed to have been drowned in the Erin! That's check-mate, I rather fancy not only to Mr. Edwin Majoribanks, but some one else we know of. The old fellow up stairs won't refuse to acknowledge his daughter-in-law now, I fancy!"
It was all Colonel Keith's doing, he said, every other adversary he would have despised, but your array of forces met him at every corner where he hoped to escape, and the dear little Rosie gave him check-mate, like a gallant little knight's pawn as she is.
"Well, well," she said, "I wish you would go now and send ma to me. I don't want to talk about it any more. My head aches as if it would split. Poor ma! She little thought when I married you that it was going to come to this." John walked out of the room gloomily enough. He had received this morning his check-mate. All illusion was at an end.
He soon mastered the moves and the chief gambits and commoner closing positions, and began to beat the Vicar. But then the cylindrical contours of the opposite king began to resemble Pawkins standing up and gasping ineffectually against check-mate, and Hapley decided to give up chess. Perhaps the study of some new branch of science would after all be better diversion.
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