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The conjuror, as did the other passengers, walked about behind the players, and saw all the players' hands, but not a word was spoken. The dog played dummy's hand. When it came to his turn he trotted backwards and forwards, smelling each card that had been dealt to him. He sometimes hesitated, then comically shaking his head, would leave it to smell another.
Incidentally, he was the most successful forager that I have ever seen; more than once, in villages which had apparently been swept clean of everything edible by the Belgians or the Germans, he produced quite an excellent dinner as mysteriously as a conjuror produces rabbits from a hat.
"You shall see my Chateaux," he said, "my horses my carriages. Listen it is the ringing of the bells. Aha! le jour viendra le jour viendra! Conjuror! who speaks of a conjuror? I never was a conjuror! I deny it: and he lies who says it! Attendons! Is the curtain up? Ah! my table where is my table? I cannot play till I have my table. Scélérats! je suis volé! je l'ai perdu! je l'ai perdu!
"Pshaw," said my father impatiently, "the man's a conjuror." The little Frenchman did not hear him. He was at that moment untying a packet which he carried in his hat, the contents whereof appeared to consist of a number of very small pink and yellow cards. Selecting a couple of each color, he deposited his hat carefully upon the floor and came a few steps nearer to the table.
He communicated this suspicion to his son-in-law, Bridier, and they both went to consult a sort of idiot, named Baudouin, who passed for a conjuror, or white-witch. This man told them that Desbourdes was certainly bewitched, and offered to accompany them to the house of an old man, named Renard, who, he said, was undoubtedly the criminal.
It wasn't a question of her strange sense for tongues, with which she juggled as a conjuror at a show juggled with balls or hoops or lighted brands it wasn't at least entirely that, for he had known people almost as polyglot whom their accomplishment had quite failed to make interesting.
Fleda felt as if some conjuror had been at work here for the last few hours the room looked so like and felt so unlike itself. "Are you going to be ill too, Fleda?" said Marion suddenly. "You are looking very far from well!" "I shall have a headache to-morrow," said Fleda quietly. "I generally know the day beforehand." "Does it always make you look so?" "Not always I am somewhat tired."
If your conjuror is not with his friends in the morning, my young men shall look for him. Your ears are open. Enough." The trapper was not sorry to find that so long a respite was granted.
Now we've only got to burn through the cotton," he said, lighting a piece of candle, "or else father'll never be able to get the tooth out. It loosens it tremendously!" He talked on about all kinds of things to divert her attention, like a conjuror, and then suddenly brought the candle close to her nose, so that she quickly drew back.
His revelations of character his own that is to say, for Horace was no conjuror with any one else's are constant but not deeply drawn. And it is all handled with the most unexpected equality of success. There is of course nothing very "arresting."
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