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"Most young girls do," Fresno smiled, sourly. "My taste runs more to music." After a moment's meditation, he observed: "Speed doesn't look like a sprinter to me. I I'll wager he can't do a hundred yards in fifteen-two." "'Fifteen-two' is cribbage," said Miss Blake. "Fifteen and two-fifths seconds is what I mean." "Is that fast?" Fresno smiled, indulgently this time.
No lights or laughter flowed from the windows of the big drawing-room of an evening; the lawns lay dark and still, while downstairs a rubber of whist or a hand at cribbage with Jim Urquhart or Mr Thornycroft represented what was left of the gaieties of the past.
"Oh, my no," said Tom, "that wouldn't do at all. Why, another marriage would completely upset Henry's System that he's always talking so much about. It's almost certain she couldn't stand it, you know, and then where would Henry be? Suppose, for example, that she forgot to have his senna tea for him at night or didn't care about playing cribbage for three-quarters of an hour after dinner?
One evening, the different inmates of the house were assembled in the drawing-room engaged in their ordinary occupations. Mr. Gobler and Mrs. Bloss were sitting at a small card-table near the centre window, playing cribbage; Mr.
It would not be exactly pleasure to accept invitations for the sake of seeing other people flirting together, while she herself sat alone in a corner. "I shan't go!" she told herself. "If she asks me I shall refuse. I don't care to be patronised at Park Lane or anywhere else. I'd rather stay at home and play cribbage in Rutland Road."
Afterward, Alden read the paper and the other two played cribbage. It was only a little after nine when Madame, concealing a yawn, announced that she was tired and would go to bed, if she might be excused. Edith rose with alacrity. "I'll come, too," she said. "It's astonishing how sleepy it makes one to be outdoors." "Don't," Madame protested. "We mustn't leave him entirely alone.
Carter exclaiming over the view from the arbor, the sunset across the moors as seen from their door which was, Father believed, absolutely the largest and finest sunset in the world. He even went so far as to discover in Mrs. Vance Carter, Mrs. Cabot-Winslow-Carter, a sneaking fondness for cribbage, which, in her exalted social position, she had had to conceal.
It's a pity, Aunt Soph, but you don't understand girls! I've not been reared on tea-parties and cribbage, and I tell you straight that I've just got to have a vent! You be wise not to try to shut me up, for I get pretty reckless if I'm thwarted." "Cornelia, do you dare to threaten me?" "No, Aunt Soph. I'm kind enough to warn you before it is too late!"
And the rest of the afternoon we spent in the cockpit reading up the matter in the books and finding out what was wrong. We missed the observation that day, but we didn't the next. We had learned. And we learned well, better than for a while we thought we had. At the beginning of the second dog-watch one evening, Charmian and I sat down on the forecastle-head for a rubber of cribbage.
He d. at Paris, it is now believed by his own hand. He was a noted gambler, and has the distinction of being the inventor of the game of cribbage. Poet, s. of Thomas H., 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was ed. by John Clerke, a learned and travelled scholar, and sec. to his f. In 1542 he was made a Knight of the Garter a few weeks after the execution of his cousin, Queen Catherine Howard.
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