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Updated: June 26, 2025
Ombre should witness the effect of English humour upon them, or that the ladies could permit themselves to laugh, their voices accompanied the gentlemen in silvery volleys. There had been 'Mackrell' at Fleetwood's dinner-table; which was then a way of saying that dry throats made no count of the quantity of champagne imbibed, owing to the fits Rose Mackrell caused.
'We ought to have sworn the gentlemen to silence. 'M. de St. Ombre is a tomb until he writes his Memoirs. I hold Sir Meeson under lock. But a spiced incident, a notorious couple, an anecdotal witness to the scene, could you expect Mr. Rose Mackrell to contain it? The sacredest of oaths, my dear!
Ombre, young Cressett, and the dozens. He is now her master. Can a man like that be foolish, in saying of the Countess Carinthia, she is 'not only quick to understand, she is in the quick of understanding'? Gower Woodseer said it of her in Wales, and again on the day of his walk up to London from Esslemont, after pedestrian exercise, which may heat the frame, but cools the mind.
'It is nothing else than a licensed keeper of a gambling-house. This was his reward to me. I was to be allowed to have a den in the piazza of Covent Garden, and there to decoy the young sparks of the town and fleece them at ombre. To restore my own fortunes I was to ruin others.
Gambling had not any great attractions for him, but a little excitement did not come amiss, and the fascination of winning was powerful. Sometimes he was persuaded to try his luck at basset or ombre, and here his lack of knowledge of the games often caused him to lose.
Kirby-Levellier handed it to him inside the coach. 'But where is she? M. de St. Ombre said, and took the hint of Livia's touch on his arm in the dark. At the silence following the question, Mr. Rose Mackrell murmured, 'Ah! He and the French gentleman understood that there might have been a manifestation of the notorious Whitechapel Countess.
'I've been having an hour with her. Two thousand more, she says. Better multiply by two and a half for a woman's confession. We have to trust to her for some of the debts of honour. See her in the morning. No one masters her but you. Mind, the first to be clear of must be St. Ombre. I like the fellow; but these Frenchmen they don't spare women. Ambrose, the earl's eyelids quivered.
He soon after took his leave, and returned home in high spirits to his Amelia, whom he found in Mrs. Ellison's apartment, engaged in a party at ombre with that lady and her right honourable cousin. Booth's affairs, his usual good- nature brought him immediately to acquaint Mr. Booth with it.
'I prefer your stage Columelli, Fleetwood said. 'I come from exile! said Henrietta; and her plea in excuse of ecstatics wrote her down as confessedly treasonable to the place quitted. Ambrose Mallard entered the box, beholding only his goddess Livia. Their eyebrows and inaudible lips conversed eloquently. He retired like a trumped card on the appearance of M. de St. Ombre.
Hither came the fair Belinda Arabella Fermor to play that game of ombre which the poet was to make famous; and here, her triumph at cards achieved, she was taking coffee "For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned The berries crackle and the mill turns round" when "the Peer", Lord Petre, "spreads the glittering forfex wide" and snips off the lock of hair!
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