Rostov staked five rubles on a
card and lost, staked again, and again lost.
Permit me to offer you my
card, and should the time come when I may serve you, remember that I am yours to command."
He met women along with the whiskey and gambling, and from observation he had found that it was far easier to break away from the drink and the
cards than from a woman once the man was properly entangled.
Slightly observant of the smoky lights; of the people, pipe in mouth, playing with limp
cards and yellow dominoes; of the one bare- breasted, bare-armed, soot-begrimed workman reading a journal aloud, and of the others listening to him; of the weapons worn, or laid aside to be resumed; of the two or three customers fallen forward asleep, who in the popular high-shouldered shaggy black spencer looked, in that attitude, like slumbering bears or dogs; the two outlandish customers approached the counter, and showed what they wanted.
I looked at the
card. There was a foreign name written on it, which has escaped my memory.
'Nell, they're--they're playing
cards,' whispered the old man, suddenly interested.
"The mistake arose out of my
card, did it?" interposed Margaret.
The next day Sarah showed Schulenberg a neat
card on which the menu was beautifully typewritten with the viands temptingly marshalled under their right and proper heads from "hors d'oeuvre" to "not responsible for overcoats and umbrellas."
''Cos if it is, jist you step in to him with that 'ere
card, and say Mr.
And now, there stood Lady Janet, unaccustomed to have her wishes disregarded by anybody, with her band extended, waiting for the
card!
We were no sooner done eating than Cluny brought out an old, thumbed, greasy pack of
cards, such as you may find in a mean inn; and his eyes brightened in his face as he proposed that we should fall to playing.
When we find him again, his mustachios and the title of Colonel on his
card are the only relics of his military profession.
