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If General Joffre had risked a battle immediately he would have been playing the game without all his trumps in hand and would have been in danger of a defeat, and even of a decided disaster, from which it might have been impossible to recover.
There, be off lose no time," said the consul, thrusting a quantity of silver into the man's hand. "Kurnul Langley," said Bobi, with enthusiasm glowing in his solitary eye, as he turned to go; "you by the beard of the Prophet! you're the ace of trumps!"
'Open the door, said Quilp, 'I've got him here. Such a clerk for you, Brass, such a prize, such an ace of trumps. Be quick and open the door, or if there's another lawyer near and he should happen to look out of window, he'll snap him up before your eyes, he will.
"Hearts are trumps, Laffie not clubs," called Dolores, as Lord James passed him by with a vague nod. Before the earl had reached them Mrs. Gantry was rising. Genevieve rose to protest. "You're not going so soon, Aunt Amice? You'll stay for a cup of tea?" "Not to-day, my dear. Ah, earl! you're just in time to relieve Genevieve from the ennui of a solitary afternoon.
"Germany will be vanquished," he added with firm conviction. "I do not know when nor how, but she will fall logically. She failed in her master-stroke in not entering Paris and overcoming its opposition. All the trumps in her pack of cards were then played.
She was simply angry disgusted disappointed at the situation; at herself, at the woman who had come between them, at the threatened failure of her plans. One moment she was building up a house of cards in which she held all the trumps, and the next instant she had tumbled it to the ground. One thing she was determined upon not to take second place. She would have all of him or none of him.
However, there he stood, and tugged his forelocks to the company, and if Truth really had concealed herself in him she must have been hard set to find her unlikeliest hiding-place. "Now," said the farmer, marshalling forth his elephant with the confidence of one who delivers his ace of trumps, "tell this young gentleman what ye saw on the night of the fire, Bantam!"
Gravitation is the destroyer, and gravitation is earth-force. The same monster which produces us devours us. That's so. I hope I shall get a chance to write that book. Clubs are trumps; pass." "Sure you are well, Doc?" inquired Georgie K., again scowling anxiously. "Never felt better, didn't I just say so?
She would write paragraphs, articles, short stories, and would send them to every editor in London. One out of three might turn up trumps. 'GARDNER STREET, 'MOUNTJOY SQUARE. 'DARLING ALICE, 'I have been in Dublin now more than a week. I did not write to you before because I wished to write to tell you that I had done all you told me to do. The first thing I did was to go to the convent.
On the corner of the table was a snuff-box; and the game was enlivened by sundry brief ejaculations and pungent questions, which kept alive the wits of the party present. It was not "silent whist!" I do not remember whether, in common with Sarah Battle, Lamb had a weakness in favor of "Hearts." It is not known what influence Martin's trumps had on the rubber then in progress.
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