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"It is pleasanter on the verandah, isn't it?" began Annie, then she caught Margaret's expressive glance at the magnificent white silk. They all sat stiffly in Margaret's pretty drawing-room. Martha said she didn't play bridge and upon Annie's timid suggestion of pinocle, said she had never heard of it. Wilbur dared not smoke. All that wretched evening they sat there.
"Well, you can either play hookey from church, or run away Sunday afternoons, or if you prefer and she is able, I will drive your grandmother over here and you can play pinocle in my study." "Then I do think she will live to be a hundred," said Annie with a peal of laughter. "Stop laughing and kiss me," said Von Rosen. "I seldom kiss anybody." "That is the reason."
Only one thing I must got to say to you, Sidney: you would got to commence small; so if what you are saying about auction pinocle and other monkey business goes, Sidney, all right. Otherwise the thing is off." "Sure, it goes, Mr. Potash," Sidney cried. Abe looked the Heir Apparent squarely in the eye for two minutes and then he struck the table again.
Annie remained at home Sundays, and read aloud to her grandmother, and when both aunts were in the midst of their respective services, and the cook, who was intensely religious, engaged in preparing dinner, she and her old grandmother played pinocle. However, although Annie played cards very well, it was only with her relatives. She had never been allowed to join the Fairbridge Card Club.
Now the minute she was sure that you, who are the minister, did not object, she would not care a bit about pinocle and it would hurt her." Annie looked inconceivably young. She knitted her candid brows and stared at him with round eyes of perplexity. Karl von Rosen shouted with laughter.
In the first place, all it is costing you is ten cents and you feel like a prince. Many a big bill of goods I sold on zwieback and coffee, Sidney crackers and milk, too. And now, Sidney, the best thing you could do is to go back and tell the old man you are through with auction pinocle and high-price lunches, and you want him he should give you a show you should sell goods."
"Well, you might just as well of been playing auction pinocle last night for all the good it would do us." "What are you talking about all the good it would do us?" Morris almost whimpered. "I actually got the feller dead to rights, Abe, and all I must do now is to work from the other end." Abe burst into a mirthless laugh and handed Morris the paper.
"I am always going to play pinocle with you Sunday forenoons as long as you live, grandmother," said she. "After you are married?" "Yes, I am." "After you are married to a minister?" "Yes, grandmother." The old lady sat up straight and eyed Annie with her delighted china blue gaze. "Mr. von Rosen is a lucky man," said she. "Enough sight luckier than he knows.
Would you believe me, Abe, I tried to get up a game of auction pinocle there and I couldn't do it! Nobody would play less than a dollar a hundred. I'm surprised to hear the place is run down so." "Oh, if the house's got a big reputation for auction pinocle, Mawruss, then that's something else again! They play just as high as former times. Sidney Koblin lost forty dollars last night.
Stocks is living and auction pinocle is also living, and going oncet in a while on theayter is living too, Aaron. I may be an old man, Aaron, but I ain't dead yet." Aaron's pale face grew almost ghastly at these shocking disclosures, and when Uncle Mosha concluded his audacious creed with a furtive wink his nephew visibly started.
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