And my playing is only a relief from the fruitless search; only that.

Card-playing, that universal occupation of "good society" everywhere, is a device for providing this kind of excitement, and that, too, by means of interests so small as to produce slight and momentary, instead of real and permanent, pain.

Motley says of one of his Flemish heroes, that "he would as soon have foregone his daily tennis as his religious exercises,"as if ball-playing were then the necessary pivot of a great man's day.

Card-playing is, in fact, a mere tickling of the will.

Card-playing to this extent is now, no doubt, a thing of the past, at any rate amongst the nations of northern Europe.

Card-playing is his worst enemy.

Do not suppose, Fastidiosus, that the playing of Polonius was any such light affair as you and I used to be concerned in up in the fourth story of "Stoughton," when we were members of the Hasty Pudding.

He was playing in a piece in which the drum music was very conspicuous; and even an unskilled observer could remark that his playing was absolute perfection.

Nearly everyone agrees that card playing is a pleasant and effective way of killing time for people who wait for a long delayed train at a lonely wayside station.