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He could not decide on the point. But he inclined to the belief that Lablache must go after to-night. He would not spare him. He had yet a trump card to play. He would be present at the game of cards, and well, time would show. He threw away his mangled cigarette end and rose from the ground. One glance of his keen eyes told him that no one was in sight.
Our artillery was utterly insufficient to deal with carefully constructed trenches among cactus hedges, more terrible than barbed wire, of whose positions they were not really certain, while our two trump cards, tanks and gas shell, were certainly not sufficient to make up for other defects and to win us the game. Still all this is of course mere wisdom after the event.
She's a trump, really; but she had a big strain put upon her endurance yesterday and this morning. Dragging another car twice her size for thirty miles or more up a mountain pass isn't a joke for a twelve horse-power car." Any one would think the automobile was his instead of Sir Ralph's by the pride he takes in it.
And going about the country, tumbling over precipices, with devilish handsome Italians going down to save her life! Ha, ha, ha! I like that!" "See here, old boy, I swear you're too suspicious. Come now. You're going too far. If she chooses, she may trump up the same charge against you and the child-angel at Vesuvius. Come now, old boy, be just. You can afford to.
"Perhaps," said Ruthven coldly, "you have some plausible explanation for this sort of thing. If you haven't, you'd better trump up one together, and I'll send you my attorney to hear it. In that event," he added, "you'd better leave your joint address when you find a more convenient house than mine."
Gabriel had played his trump; and those of us who could not follow suit were arraigned for examination. I noticed at one side a gathering of professional bondsmen in solemn black and collars that buttoned behind; but it seemed there was some trouble about their real estate titles; and they did not appear to be getting any of us out.
Only one day after the war-zone proclamation went into effect the Allies brought out their trump card for the spring of 1915. By the middle of February, 1915, the Allies completed the arrangement for the naval attack on the Dardanelles.
Try and go round by Paris on your way home, and pay your visit, and carry your father's fond remembrances to Madame la Comtesse de Florac. I don't say remember me to my brother, as I write Brian by this mail. Adieu, mon fils! je t'embrasse! and am always my Clive's affectionate father, T. N." "Isn't he a noble old trump?" That point had been settled by the young men any time these three years.
"Well," thought I, "this is better at least than I anticipated, for if nothing else offers, I shall have rare fun teasing my friend Charley" for it was evident that he had been caught by the lady in question. "And so you'll stay with us; give me your hand you are a real trump." These words, which proceeded from a voice at the lower end of the table, were addressed to my friend Finucane.
"God love you, Sir Oswald you're a trump!" he exclaimed and sitting down, fell to upon the food I had set before him. "It is good ham!" said I. "Sublime!" he answered, and seeing with what fervour he addressed himself to the viands, I troubled him with no further speech until, his plate empty, he leaned back in his chair and vented a sigh of blissful and utter content.
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