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In the house, many of the gentlemen betook themselves to cards or dice, and parties were formed at Ombre, at Basset, at Gleek, at Primero, and other games then in fashion; while the dice were used at various games, both with and without the tables, as Hazard, In-and-in, Passage, and so forth.
But the puffing indignation of Sir Meesan Corby over his battered hat and torn frill and buttons plucked from his coat, and his threat of the magistrates, excited the crowd to derisive yells. My lord spoke something to his man, handing his purse. The ladies were spared the hearing of bad language. They, according to the joint testimony of M. de St. Ombre and Mr.
Other parts may likewise be charged with want of connection the game at ombre might be spared; but if the lady had lost her hair while she was intent upon her cards it might have been inferred that those who are too fond of play will be in danger of neglecting more important interests. Those, perhaps, are faults, but what are such faults to so much excellence!
God help me! What are my sins? She feels nothing, or about as much as the mortuary paragraph of the newspapers, for the dead man; and I have Ambrose Mallard's look at her and St. Ombre talking together, before he left the tent to cross the fields. Borrow, beg, or steal for money to play for her! and not a glimpse of the winning post. St. Ombre 's a cool player; that 's at the bottom of the story.
His great genius for financial combinations was at this time employed by him in gleek, trick-track, quadrille, whist, loo, ombre, and other pastimes of mingled luck and skill. In consequence of a quarrel about a lady, Mr.
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.
Glow and King entered and took chairs on the ombre. It was a very pretty scene; more people were present than usual of a morning.
"What has that to do with us the minority? Can we smooth a sick man's pillow by pulling a long face? We shall do him more good by tossing him a crown, if he be poor; or helping to build him a hospital by the sacrifice of a night's winnings at ombre. Long faces help nobody; that is what you Puritans will never consider."
'He wins one night; loses every pound-note he has the next; and comes vaunting the "dry still Sillery" of the establishment, a perpetual chorus to his losses! 'His consolation to you for yours. That is the gentleman. Chummy doesn't change. Say, why not St. Ombre? He's cool. 'There are reasons. 'Let them rest. And I have my reasons. Do the same for them.
Through him Dunk Island possesses another strand in the bond with the immortals, and is ensured connection with remote posterity. He gambled so passionately that he invented as a means of hasty refreshment the immemorial "sandwich," that the fascination of basset, ombre or quadrille should not be dispelled by the intrusion of a meal.
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