So he will have to play dummy whist all the evening with Uncle and Aunt, and eat his dinner at half-past six!

Till then I had thought speech-making was a sort of conversational whist, that any one could cut in at it.

However, as I have said, Lord Palmerston effectually cleared Crockford's, and it almost seemed, from the evidence of those who knew Crockford's best, that they never played anything there but old-fashioned whist for threepenny points, patience, and beggar-my-neighbour.

He taught her coon-can, two-handed whist and Chinese solitaire before a gray lightening outside proclaimed that the night was over.

Tea being over, he played two rubbers at sixpenny whist.