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Updated: June 28, 2025
Fortune-telling, you know. He wanted twenty a month. Think of that!" "Never mind the Sarge," says I. "Did you know Mr. Gordon?" "Pyramid?" says she. "Rather! Back in the '90's, that was. I was in his offices for awhile." "Oh ho!" says I. "Then you must be the one. Would you mind givin' me a sketch of the affair?" Mrs. Shaw shrugs her shoulders under the old cape. "Why should I care now?" says she.
"French," was Cleek's silent comment upon him. "One of those charlatans who infest the streets of Paris with their so-called 'fortune-telling birds, who, for ten centimes, pick out an envelope with their beaks as a means of telling you what the future is supposed to hold. What has made a woman like this pick up with a fellow of his stamp? Hum-m-m!
"French!" was Cleek's silent comment upon him. "One of those charlatans who infest the streets of Paris with their so-called 'fortune-telling birds, who, for ten centimes, pick out an envelope with their beaks as a means of telling you what the future is supposed to hold. What has made a woman like this pick up a fellow of his stamp? Hum-m-m!
One was about Indians, and one was about pirates, and one was about dreams and signs, and one was full of curious stories, and one told about magic and how to do jugglers' tricks; the other was a fortune-telling book.
This was all the information she appeared to derive from this pack, which were ordinary playing cards, so she laid them aside and took up the regular fortune-telling cards, which are covered with various mysterious devices.
"I meant to keep it as a reserve force in case the fortune-telling didn't turn out all our fancy painted it," said Alice; "but I don't mind telling you now." She opened the bundle, and there was a tambourine, some black lace, a packet of cigarette papers, and our missing combs. "What ever on earth " Dicky was beginning, but Oswald saw it all. He has a wonderfully keen nose. And he said
You may help me greatly in this affair; therefore be diligent and observant, and be as much as possible with your mistress." Then I said to the old woman: "You must also play your part. You can be introduced to the queen as a woman skilled in charms and fortune-telling. When you get her to listen to you, make the most of the opportunity, and second your daughter's endeavours."
Do you not see, Guert, that the soothsayer can, at the best, but foretell what is to happen, and that which must come will. It would be an easy matter for any of us to get great reputations for fortune-telling, if all we had to do was to predict misfortunes, in order that our friends might avoid them.
It was here especially that the Jews exercised some of the meanest trades in Rome, selling matches, and old clothes, and broken glass, or begging and fortune-telling on the Cestian or Fabrican bridges. In one of these narrow, dark, and dirty streets, thronged by the dregs of the Roman populace, St. Mark and St.
It seems to me, sir, and I must insist on making this observation forcibly in justice to myself, that you ought to have got much more money, much more money. Fortune-Telling
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