"Please place your money on the
cards or I may get muddled in the reckoning."
Presents are made to the Boffin servants, and bland strangers with business-
cards meeting said servants in the street, offer hypothetical corruption.
Go and play at your tiresome old
cards, then, if you will."
It cost Campbell likewise nine hundred to remain and draw
cards, but to the surprise of all he saw the nine hundred and raised another thousand.
Barsad," he went on, in the tone of one who really was looking over a hand at
cards: "Sheep of the prisons, emissary of Republican committees, now turnkey, now prisoner, always spy and secret informer, so much the more valuable here for being English that an Englishman is less open to suspicion of subornation in those characters than a Frenchman, represents himself to his employers under a false name.
The dresser-drawer in the pantry contained a choice selection of miscellaneous objects--a pack of
cards being among them.
'Look sharp with that candle,' said the voice; 'it's as much as I can do to see the pips on the
cards as it is; and get this shutter closed as quick as you can, will you?
Think of a New York girl shedding tears on the menu
card!
Colonel Wugsby kissed her eldest daughter most affectionately, and frowning in a warning manner upon the other, sorted her
cards.
The boy retired and returned after a moment, bringing the tiny silver tray, which was covered with ladies' visiting
cards. He handed it to Mrs.
No one made any objection but Marianne, who with her usual inattention to the forms of general civility, exclaimed, "Your Ladyship will have the goodness to excuse ME--you know I detest
cards. I shall go to the piano-forte; I have not touched it since it was tuned." And without farther ceremony, she turned away and walked to the instrument.
When he had finished, Trent took up the
cards, which he had shuffled for Poker, and dealt them out for Patience.
