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Updated: July 20, 2025
The jury fixing evidence would keep and it would prove all the stronger trump to play when the right occasion arose. That time rapidly approached, now, with the day set for the trial of Dopey Jack. The morning of the trial found both Kennedy and myself in the part of General Sessions to which the case had been assigned to be tried under Justice Pomeroy.
"You are a trump, Neenah," cried Chase, hurrying up to her. "A Persian angel!" It was not Neenah's laugh that replied. Chase gasped in amazement and then uttered a cry of joy. The Princess Genevra, slim and erect, was standing before him, her hand touching her turban in true military salute, soft laughter rippling from her lips.
sang, or rather shouted, a little Corporal, whom we have met before in these pages, as he made ridiculous efforts to infuse life into heels clodded with mud. "Talk as you please about old Pigey, boys, he's a regular trump on the whiskey question. He'll cut red-tape any day on that.
For three days and nights did the body of Raoul Yvard, the unbeliever, lie in the chapel of that holy fraternity, his soul receiving the benefit of masses; then it was committed to holy ground, to await the summons of the last trump. There is a strange disposition in the human breast to withhold praise from a man when living, that is freely accorded to him when dead.
So it is, therefore, that I shall probably, by the closest possible shave, escape the penalty of my crimes." "You mean being held responsible." "I mean being held responsible. My advantage will be that Maggie's such a trump." "Such a trump that, as you say, she'll stick to you." "Stick to me, on our understanding stick to me. For our understanding's signed and sealed."
Larry laid down the paddle and a slow reluctant smile played around the corners of his mouth, though there was sharp distress still in his eyes. He loathed losing his temper like that. It sickened him, filled him with spiritual nausea, a profound disgust for himself and his mastering weakness. "I've been a fool, kid," he admitted. "I'm all right now. You were a trump to stand by me.
Allen," she answered sweetly, "you forget that I have given you my promise not to reveal what I know." The Celebrity chafed, for this was as damaging a statement as could well be uttered against him. But Miss Thorn was his trump card, and she now came forward. "This is ridiculous, Mr. Crocker, simply ridiculous," said she. "I agree with you most heartily, Miss Thorn," I replied.
Williamson's, and brought me up this extract out of the Flanders' letters to-day come: That Admiral Everson, and the Admiral and Vice-Admiral of Freezeland, with many captains and men, are slain; that De Ruyter is safe, but lost 250 men out of his own ship; but that he is in great disgrace, and Trump in better favour; that Bankert's ship is burned, himself hardly escaping with a few men on board De Haes; that fifteen captains are to be tried the seventh of August; and that the hangman was sent from Flushing to assist the Council of Warr.
"Well, he's a trump, is Mr. Stanley, at least folks say so; and he'll say right off the reel 'onquestionably it is excellent policy. "When he says that, you have him bagged, he may flounder and spring like a salmon jist caught; but he can't out of the landin' net. You've got him, and no mistake. Sais you 'what outlet have you for the colonies?
O, if we had spiritual organs, to see and hear things now invisible and inaudible to us, we should behold the whole air filled with the departing souls of that vast multitude which every moment dies, should behold them streaming up like thin vapors heaven-ward, and hear the startling blast of the archangel's trump sounding incessant through the universe and proclaiming the awful judgment day.
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