Bill found it impossible to go to sleep at the hotel on account of the continued talking of some parties who were engaged in a game of cards in an adjoining room.

He handed her a card with his own and his comrade's name in pencil.

Why, when KERNELIUS was engaged in a friendly game of cards for keeps, up at Saratogy, some poor deluded money-maniac telegrafs that the Commodore had at last found his match, and had been gathered to his fathers.

(Mr. X., Deputy, who waltzes only with his wife, has the honour to send back the card of invitation which the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Madame Waddington have sent to him for the party of the 28... )

" As they were speaking a footman had opened the hall-door and now approached with a card on a salver.

Card to the Public.

Not so much as a post-card from there since" "Uhuhnowcry-baby!" "Iain't exactly sorry, Lew; only God knows, more'n once in those twelve weeks out of work I was for goin' back and patchin' it up with him.

" "Dear girl, I'm afraid you don't understand our way of making up dance cards at Crabtown.

You are not lying, girl?"Miss Splurge thrust the card into the newly-purchased pocket-book, and hid that in her bosom.

According to Stahl, the ferment is somebody who knocks the table, and shakes the card-house down; according to Fabroni, the ferment takes out some cards, but puts others in their places; according to Thénard, the ferment simply takes a card out of the bottom story, the result of which is that all the others fall.

"If ever you come to New York" He tore himself from the omelette long enough to scribble the name of a club on the card by my plate.

She ran after a Boston negro named Prince Saunders, who 'as he put his Christian name "Prince" on his cards without the addition of Mr., was believed to be a native African prince, and soon became a lion of the first magnitude in fashionable circles.'

Notwithstanding all the arguments that may be advanced in favor of games at chess and back-gammon, as exercises in mental gymnastics, and of playing cards as affording pleasant diversion for mixed parties, the diligent tourist, like the industrious student, should not squander much of his time at it.

The footman had entered to bring her cards over which Eve de Montalais arched her brows.

For some moments Jack sat silent, staring at the cards before him.

It is a duty I owe to myself as a man, which I owe still more to my murdered father.' 'Have you come all the way from London, and in such weather, only to tell me this story?' She had twisted his card between her fingers as she listened to him, and now, with an action at once careless and contemptuous, she flung it upon the burning logs.

There was the affair over in a neighboring town, when yeggmen broke into the bank, and robbed it; and now here you tell me we've had a little smash-up on our own account, with the burglars leaving cards behind them.

And if we got it despite his lead of aces, how gravely he squinted on the cards against deception, with his glasses forward on his nose!

Godfrey stopped in front of the purser's office, and passed his card through the little window to the man inside the cage.

" Before noon, a waste of miscut cards about her, she cut her hand slightly, fumbling at the machine, and cried out.

"An invitation to Professor Joliette's," and Isabelle tossed a gilt-edged card across the table to Marion; "Wednesday evening.

I should suffer no pain even if I heard that he took a hand of cards after dinner, and I hope he takes care to get a game of golf at the week-end.

Mayhall straightened his shouldersseeing the game, as did the crowd at once: Flitter Bill was impressing that messenger in case he had some dangerous card up his sleeve.

Yet it is supposed that Herman put that card outside his bedroom door.

All the cards near me were black just then.