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What is the best ninth move in the Evans gambit? Would Morphy have been a first-class chess-player to-day? Is the Steinitz gambit sound? Do plants dream? Ought we to fill up income-tax papers accurately? Shelley and Harriet and Mary. Swift and Vanessa and Stella. Lord and Lady Byron. Did Mrs. Carlyle deserve it? The limits of biography; of photography in painting; of the spot-stroke in billiards.
It was the first gambit in a conversation that was to lead up to Jenny's caricatures. "True," said Mary; and, generalising for herself, she added, "When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she or he, of course, as the case may be must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering."
"Papa, what a time you have been, to be sure!" she exclaimed, as the doctor came gradually up, probing his way in perfect leisure, and fragrant still of that gambit; "one would think that your parish was on dry land altogether, while the better half of it, as they call themselves though the women are in righteousness the better half a hundredfold "
They are the venerable results of experience; and he who tries to excel without an acquaintance with them will find that it is much as if he should ignore the results of the past and put his hand into the fire to prove that fire would burn. If he should try every method of answering a special attack, he would be sure to find in the end that the method laid down in the gambit was the true one.
It was evident the next sentence was premeditated. "Whad I was going to say was this," said the swart man, and sought through a silence for further words. "Whad I was going to say was this," he repeated. Finally he abandoned that gambit. "You're aw right," he cried, laying a grimy hand on Denton's grimy sleeve. "You're aw right. You're a ge'man. Sorry very sorry. Wanted to tell you that."
There's the 'D. D. gambit I've invented, people will be studying and playing for centuries, but it'll never bring me a penny for all the brain-work I put into it, and so I've got to protect myself, haven't I?" "It's what I do with less talk about it," answered Dunn contemptuously.
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