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Doctor Wilhelm had kept a place for him. "The doctor tells me you were in the steerage, and a beautiful Deborah made a dangerous impression upon you," the captain said, smiling roguishly. Frederick laughed. He ordered beer, and the conversation was jolly from the start. In their corner the skat players were sitting over their cards. They were business men, all of apoplectic constitution.
"I doubt it," he rejoined. "Ersten has just lost the coat cutter who helped him build up his business, and he's soured on everything in the world but Schoppenvoll's and skat and Rheinthranen." "Could I learn to play skat in about a day?" inquired Johnny. "You have no German ancestors, have you?" retorted Close. "No." "Then you couldn't learn it in a thousand years!"
Britling and Mr. Carmine went on talking. Nothing else was possible. They repeated things they had already said. They went into things more thoroughly. They sat still for a time, and then suddenly broke out with some new consideration.... It had been their custom to play skat with Herr Heinrich, who had shown them the game very explicitly and thoroughly.
When he had done these things, and gone back to his own land, one Skat entertained him at a banquet, desirous to mingle his toilsome warfare with joyous licence. Frode was lying in his house, in royal fashion, upon cushions of cloth of gold, and a certain Hunding challenged him to fight.
It seemed natural to him that he should reckon with the apparition of Rasmussan sitting at the foot of his bed and the four men playing skat in one of his down-stairs rooms as with realities. In the instinct to counteract the physical crisis, which in a dull way he felt was approaching, he resorted to exercise.
There were scarcely twelve people at table, among them Hahlström and Doctor Wilhelm. After a time the skat players, as usual, came bursting in, talking noisily and red of face. Their winnings were immediately transmuted into Pommery. Notwithstanding the fearful weather, the band was playing.
Ersten stoutly, and then he laughed with considerable heartiness, pleased immensely with his own joke and not noticing that it was more than half Johnny's. After all, Johnny had only implied it; he had said it! Accordingly he relented a trifle. "From four to half-past five, at Schoppenvoll's, I play skat," he added.
"Or else yes" a glance at his own cards "it would have been altogether bad for you. I had taken only a very small risk.... Now I must " He would reconsider his hand. "Zo!" he would say, dashing down a card.... Well, he had gone and skat had gone. A countless multitude of such links were snapping that day between hundreds of thousands of English and German homes. Section 9
To begin with, he doesn't look like a disorderly genius with rumpled hair, but is the mildest-mannered man who ever scuttled another's score and smoked Munich cigars or played "skat." And then he loves money! What other composer, besides Handel, Haydn, Mozart yes, and also Beethoven Gluck, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Puccini, so doted on the box-office? Why shouldn't he?
"Because," Sol explained, "he's got an idee that if you act just contrariwise to the inside information what you get it, why then you come out right." Abe shook his head hopelessly. "Pinochle, I understand it," he said, "and skat a little also. But this here stocks from stock exchanges is worser than chest what they play it in coffee-houses." "You don't need to understand it, Abe," Sol replied.
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