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Hare, we may as well throw up our cards," said the keen clear voice of Lord Vargrave: "you have played most admirably, and I know that your last card will be the ace of trumps; still the luck is against us." "No, no; pray play it out, my lord." "Quite useless, ma'am," said Sir John, showing two honours. "We have only the trick to make."
He lacked two cards to make the highest point possible, but Henri, by their absence from his own hand, could measure the peril that menaced him. So, surveying the number of cards that remained in stock, he guarded carefully three aces of trumps which might help him to avert disaster.
I wouldn't have done such a thing at Eton." "I had a flush of them," I said eagerly. "And I meant to lead ace, and then get trumps out. But I put down queen by mistake." "You can make what excuses you like, Hamlyn," said the Major. "But the fact remains the same. There is one great fault in your character, the greatest fault I know of, and which you ought to study to correct.
There had been those stripey, streaky creations of Monet's, which had turned out such trumps; and then the stippled school; and Gauguin. Why, even since the Post-Impressionists there had been one or two painters not to be sneezed at.
Supple did not attempt to enter the school-house again, but picked up his hat, went to his boarding-house, packed his trunk, and left town. After a week's vacation, Mr. Cannel, who was the school-agent, obtained another teacher, a thin, pale-faced, quick-tempered young man, Mr. Thrasher. "I'll bring them to their trumps," he said, when Mr. Cannel engaged him.
Can I have a drink and something to eat? I'm half starved." "Certainly. But your suggestion " "Is already working. I'm going to make it so hot for Red Shandon that he'll come to time the first show he gets. MacKelvey is on the jump and not over an hour or two behind me. It's time for trumps now, Leland." Martin jerked his head up at MacKelvey's name and stared at Hume with keen, hard eyes.
Trumps is done fur, an' you'll see No sand left in his crops, cooked watch an' see, oh, my, Ben Butler there he's up now up an' done fur Go now move some hi " Trumps and Lizzette had raced it out to the head of the stretch. But Trumps was not equal to the clip which Travis had made cyclonic, knowing the horse was sadly distressed.
Martin Burney was the grimy-fisted whist-player to whom Lamb once observed, "Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!" The enchanter in "The Faerie Queene." August 31, 1822. Dear Clare, I thank you heartily for your present. I am an inveterate old Londoner, but while I am among your choice collections I seem to be native to them and free of the country.
And the names that be upon their tombs, even unto this time, are Johannes Smithianus, Trumps, Gift, High, and Low, Jack, and The Game. And with the sleepers lie also the bottles wherein were once the curious liquors: and upon them is writ, in ancient letters, such words as these Dames of heathen gods of olden time, perchance: Rumpunch, Jinsling, Egnog.
But that afternoon General Trumps came down; and as the hotel was crowded, the landlord put Jones in the room with Brown and gave Jones' apartment to the general. Brown forgot about the string, and he and Jones went to bed.
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