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At length, however, she was comforted, and her pacification completely effected by Sir George setting her down to a whist-table. From this moment I lost sight of her for above two hours.
A violent altercation ensued as to who led a certain crucial card, which decided the game. Once seated at the whist-table, the cavaliere was a real autocrat. There he did not affect even to submit to the marchesa. Now, provoked beyond endurance, he plainly told her "she never had played a good game, and, what was more, that she never would she was too impetuous."
He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which is a condition of the average business life; and after the long dull days in the office the evenings at his grandfather's whist-table did not give him the counter-stimulus he needed.
Sticktorights came to cut in at the Hazeldean whist-table. Frank has settled at the Casino with a wife who suits him exactly, and that wife was Miss Sticktorights. It was two years before Frank recovered the disappointment with which the loss of Beatrice saddened his spirits, but sobered his habits and awoke his reflection.
The party being now all united, and the chief talkers attracting each other, she remained in tranquillity; and as a whist-table was formed after tea formed really for the amusement of Dr.
It was the conversation of a man who, besides the knowledge which is acquired from books and life, had studied the art which becomes a gentleman, that of pleasing in polite society. The result was that all were charmed with him; and that even Captain Barnabas postponed the whist-table for a full hour after the usual time.
Grant and her sister, that after making up the whist-table there would remain sufficient for a round game, and everybody being as perfectly complying and without a choice as on such occasions they always are, speculation was decided on almost as soon as whist; and Lady Bertram soon found herself in the critical situation of being applied to for her own choice between the games, and being required either to draw a card for whist or not.
At this whist-table, Barbara usually is the fourth. Rosamond gets sleepy over it, and Ruth Miss Trixie says "plays like a ninkum."
He confined himself to dining off something like a boiled chicken, with toast-and-water; by such a regimen he came to the whist-table with a clear head, and possessing as he did a remarkable memory, with great coolness and judgment, he was able honestly to win the enormous sum of 200,000L. At Brookes', for nearly half a century, the play was of a more gambling character than at White's.
She sat while he made his farewell speech over the whist-table, but as he went to the door she rose and followed him slowly. In the hall she watched the servant help him on with his coat her features twisted into a stereotype smile of polite leave-taking. "By the way," she said, with a sickening little laugh, "what was the man's name your friend, whom you lost?" "Michael Seymour Michael." "Ah!
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