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More than once I saw him glance questioningly at Gwen with a look which said plainly enough: "What is the meaning of this remarkable change? Why should it so matter to her whether M. Latour's or M. Godin's death avenges her father's murder?" When he left us at night I could see he had not answered that question to his own satisfaction. The Devil throws double sixes when he turns genius heliward.
He's been courted by sixes and sevens all the girls, gentle and simple, for miles round, have tried him. Jane Perkins worked at him for two months like a slave, and the two Miss Taylors spent a year upon him, and he cost Farmer Ives's daughter nights of tears and twenty pounds' worth of new clothes; but Lord the money might as well have been thrown out of the window."
"And is it very perilous, this achievement?" "No," replied he of the Rueful Countenance; "though it may be in the dice that we may throw deuce-ace instead of sixes; but all will depend on thy diligence." "On my diligence!" said Sancho. "Yes," said Don Quixote, "for if thou dost return soon from the place where I mean to send thee, my penance will be soon over, and my glory will soon begin.
The little man caught up the box, rattled the dice briskly, and threw four and three. Captain Runacles picked them up, and made his cast deliberately six and ace. "Gentlemen, you must throw again. Fortune herself seems to hesitate between you." Captain Barker threw again, and leant back with a sob of triumph. "Two sixes, upon my soul!" murmured the Doctor.
The Otises, however, were deceived, for the ghost was still in the house, and though now almost an invalid, was by no means ready to let matters rest, particularly as he heard that among the guests was the young Duke of Cheshire, whose grand-uncle, Lord Francis Stilton, had once bet a hundred guineas with Colonel Carbury that he would play dice with the Canterville ghost, and was found the next morning lying on the floor of the card-room in such a helpless paralytic state that, though he lived on to a great age, he was never able to say anything again but "Double Sixes."
How many moving in the society of the west end, with a father a tobacconist or a cheesemonger in the city, would gladly pay well for a fashionable parent supposed to live upon his estate in Yorkshire, or entertaining, as the Morning Post has it, a “distinguished party at his shooting lodge in the Highlands.” What a luxury, when dining his friends at the Clarendon, to be able to talk of his “Old Governor” hunting his hounds twice a week, while, at the same moment, the real individual was engaged in the manufacture of soap and short sixes.
Clay is the I mean, he is a friend of the family, and he has been good to my mother," Jervis went on, a curious air of constraint showing itself in him, which might have been due to nervousness, although he was not wont to be troubled in that fashion. "Cousin Samuel died in February, and affairs have been at sixes and sevens since, wanting my presence in England."
His appointment on the staff was in abeyance in fact, the vacancy on which it was expectant had not definitely occurred and all things were at sixes and sevens with poor Dick Devereux. That evening, strange to say, Sturk was still living; and Toole reported him exactly in the same condition. But what did that signify? 'Twas all one.
Those four, when they meet and clapper their friendly old tongues, can hardly believe that once upon a time they were all at sixes and sevens, and that Ernest himself was once in that very place a Prisoner of War. Once more the temple-gates lie open wide: Onward, once more, Advance the Faithful, mounting like a tide That climbs the shore. What seek they?
And where do you expect to get them, I'd like to know? Things have been at sixes and sevens in this house ever since the gloom came. And that new piece from the village ain't worth her salt's far as work goes." Poor Harkness had to recognize the truth of what Budge said. Since the "gloom" things had been going at sixes and sevens inexperienced help called up from the village to fill any need.
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