whist-counters

Updated: June 7, 2025

He did not see that Lady Lawless was making a possible courtship easy for him. If he had, it would have made no difference: he would have looked at it as at most things, broadly. He was not blind to the fact that his money might be a "factor", but, as he said to himself, his millions were a part of him they represented, like whist-counters, so much pluck and mother-wit.

Gilbert Parker - At the Sign of the Eagle