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Updated: May 15, 2025
This is the last game I play, and it is not checkmate yet. Where have they taken Orrain?" "The Châtelet." "And mademoiselle?" "I know not. I know not if she is alive or dead." Le Brusquet groaned. "That is the worst tale of all. Orrain, I think, we can save." "How so?" For answer Le Brusquet held up my ring. "With this talisman!"
Piece after piece was removed from the board, and the Major drank glass after glass of soda to cool his heated brain. At the second glass Halibut took an empty tumbler and helped himself. Suddenly there was a singing in the Major's ears, and a voice, a hateful, triumphant voice, said, "Checkmate!" Then did his gaze wander from knight to bishop and bishop to castle in a vain search for succour.
I left the breakfast-table, and as I ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still, said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.
The idea made him grind his teeth with rage; but he was mistaken, for neither Tantaine nor the doctor mentioned his name after they had left his apartment. As they walked up the Rue Montmartre, all their ideas were turning upon how it would be easiest to checkmate Andre. "I have not yet got sufficient information to act on," remarked Tantaine meditatively.
"That will checkmate them, Mr Jones," he said. "I wish I had thought of this before. Now go."
He told himself the Fates had decreed it, and the game had to be played out to the end, The principal thing now was to keep the pieces moving and prevent a checkmate, for that would mean ruin! One of the office boys knocked at the door and presented a card, for into this sanctum sanctorum no one was permitted to enter unannounced.
White also referred to the personnel of the British Embassy at Constantinople in terms which show how mischievous must have been its influence on the counsels of the Porte. To support the young and growing nationalities in Turkey would serve, not only to checkmate the supposed aggressive designs of Russia, but also to array on the side of Britain the progressive forces of the East.
Miss Deane was a more than ordinarily skilful player, and so was he; indeed, so well matched were they, that neither found it an easy matter to checkmate the other: and that first game proved a long one, so long that Zoe, who had watched its progress with some interest in the beginning, eager to see Edward win, at length grew so weary as to find it difficult to keep her eyes open, or refrain from yawning.
But William IV., after two failures in a similar attempt, after his respective embarrassing interviews with Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne, on their return to office in 1832 and 1835, was resolved never to make another move unless it were a checkmate.
He set forth his case the case which meant his political checkmate, then waited. Selma had risen and stood with folded arms gazing into distance with the far away look by which she was wont to subdue mountains. "Have you finished?" she asked. "What you are proposing to do is to sacrifice your life and my life, James Lyons, for the sake of a er fetish.
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