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Updated: May 2, 2025
At each little table sit the chess or draught-players, while many interested are looking on. Here is the lavatory, complete in all its appointments, except, perhaps, that the long towel on the roller has been already this evening used by too many hands. The smell of blacking, too, indicates the wearer's pleasure in his cleaned and polished boots.
The time will come when draught-players will understand that the Whilter is formed by the first three moves, namely, 11.15 23.19 7.11, or else, 10.15 23.19 7.10, which is really the same thing.
Sir Hamilton had involved his daughter in a vortex of backgammon, a game draught-players detest, and vice versa, because the two games are even as Box and Cox, in homes possessing only one board. So Gwen and Adrian had themselves to themselves, and wanted nothing more. Her eyes rested now and then with a new curiosity on the Baronet, deep in his game at the far end of the room.
I'm by no means superstitious, but I do not see how I can trace it to human origin." "I cannot see why any guest should assume the person of the traditional ghost, but some men have deep designing minds. They are like clever draught-players; they see half-a-dozen moves ahead, and so do that which to a novice appears meaningless and absurd."
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