All Rostov's
cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored up against him.
The man remained standing where he could watch the Frenchman's
cards. Tarzan was puzzled, but he was all attention now, nor did he permit another detail of the incident to escape him.
Reaching over Daylight's shoulder, she picked up his hand and read it, at the same time shielding the faces of the five
cards close to his chest.
While he was at a loss, Carton said, resuming his former air of contemplating
cards:
"Nothing can make matters worse than they are," she thought, despairingly, as Arnold dealt the
cards for her.
'I had no intention to offend,' said the old man, looking anxiously at the
cards. 'I thought that--'
Sarah sat down to her typewriter and slipped a
card between the rollers.
''Cos if it is, jist you step in to him with that 'ere
card, and say Mr.
He took up his
cards one by one, and as he snatched up the last he groaned.
Cluny stopped mingling the
cards. "What in deil's name is this?" says he.
Now, our friend the Colonel had a great aptitude for all games of chance: and exercising himself, as he continually did, with the
cards, the dice- box, or the cue, it is natural to suppose that he attained a much greater skill in the use of these articles than men can possess who only occasionally handle them.
le Cardinal de Mazarin, who gave a
card party to the king and queen.