Sans merci; or, Kestrels and falcons, by the author of 'Guy Livingstone'. |
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Page 162 - But the precept is understood to be subject to large exceptions. Its real use is to warn us against the abuse of the more popular adage that " a man has a right to do as he likes with his own " (c), which errs much more dangerously on the other side.
Page 33 - Englishmen, once heirs to fair fortunes, are wandering about the Continent, in a state of utter destitution, because— they would not lead trumps, with five, and an honour, in their hands.
Page 32 - ... trumps. If he had only gone off with that suit, the game was over: he would have led through king, second, on his left, up to Castlemaine's ace and queen. True: he had not a powerful playing hand; yet he might have given his partner credit for something. But one of the weakest—if not the worst—points in Flemyng's character was this: he never could trust either friend or foe.
Page 158 - Nisbet said, with a coarse attempt at cordiality. " What brings a swell like you, to a den like this, just about your dinner hour ? I'm glad to see you, any way. Sit down, old man. I've sent the boy on a message : he won't be back for ever so long. So there'll be no one to disturb us.
Page 32 - The boy shook his head sulkily: but Bertie— infected with the gambling-virus, and facile as usual before temptation—'jumped on' and booked the bet. Now, by one of the curious coincidences that happen only at cards, the second hand was almost a counterpart of the first. Vincent held the knave, and four more trumps. If he had only gone off with that suit, the game was over: he would have led through king, second, on his left, up to Castlemaine's ace and queen. True: he had not a powerful playing...
Page 125 - Tom checked himself here, with rather an awkward laugh. " Ton must forgive me : I'm boring you with our family-affair, as if you were an old friend." " I take it as a great compliment — " the other said : and really he looked as if he did so. "I wish, from the bottom of my heart, that I could give any advice that would be useful. But you are quite wide of my meaning. Those who have lived my life, are apt to look upon mere money- scrapes only too lightly.
Page 231 - ... temptations. Not till long afterwards, did Kate learn the whole sinful secret: then her husband told her all that had been said and done on that disastrous day; and confessed his own misgivings as to the share he might innocently have had, in hastening the blow that struck poor Marmaduke Dorrillon down. Kate said little; and that little in tenderness; but she was almost slower in shaking off the effect of what she then heard, than she had been in recovering from the first horror of her brother's...
Page 112 - Tyrol and end— he himself knew not where. The first uproar of the scandal, that had set all the Marlshire tattlers buzzing like bees round an overturned hive, had begun to die away in vague intermittent rumours. Seyton had begun to talk of taking Kate up to Town, for a fortnight, to help him to get rid of his Derby winnings, "in a fashionable manner;" (for, though Crusader only ran a good second, Tom had contrived to make nearly ZQOl. out of his 'long shot' by judicious hedging); and Mrs.
Page 251 - And lo, he sat on horseback at the door! And near him the sad nuns with each a light Stood , and he gave them charge about the Queen , To guard and foster her for evermore. And while he spake to these his helm was lower'd...
Page 130 - ... banker's, Seyton came punctually to his appointment the next day; and found his brother-in-law alone. As might have been expected, their meeting was the reverse of cordial. Tom was a miserable dissembler at the best of times ; and Flemyng had evidently wrapped himself up in defiant sullenness — the last refuge of a nature too weak to own itself in the wrong. After a few words of purely formal greeting, Tom went straight to business. " That is the sum you named, as sufficient to cover all your...