Rostov staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again lost.
With a sinking heart he watched Dolokhov's hands and thought, "Now then, make haste and let me have this card and I'll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denisov, Natasha, and Sonya, and will certainly never touch a card again." At that moment his home life, jokes with Petya, talks with Sonya, duets with Natasha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed in the house on the Povarskaya rose before him with such vividness, clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and unappreciated bliss, long past.
"There are no cards in my coat," and with that he ran his hand into his pocket.
"Gentlemen," he continued, "monsieur le count did not know that those cards were in his pocket.
MacDonald counted his cards carefully, to make doubles sure it was not a foul hand, wrote a sum on a paper slip, and slid it into the pot, with the simple utterance:-
Kearns, with every eye upon him, looked at his two-card draw, counted the other three to dispel any doubt of holding more than five cards, and wrote on a betting slip.
The means of happiness are on the cards and the dice.
'If you're not coming yourself, give us the cards, will you?'
If he played a wrong
card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to consider which was the right one, Lady Snuphanuph would throw herself back in her chair, and smile with a mingled glance of impatience and pity to Mrs.
When I returned, he and Alan had laid the cards aside, and were questioning a gillie; and the chief turned about and spoke to me in the Gaelic.
I saw cards on the table, but no gold; only a heap of little written papers, and these all on Cluny's side.
When we find him again, his mustachios and the title of Colonel on his
card are the only relics of his military profession.
Associating the clerk's idea with the line inscribed on the
card in my hand, I thought it possible that the Moonstone might be at the bottom of Mr.
Bast said to me, 'Do go.' While I was gone, however, she wanted me on important business, and thought I had come here, owing to the
card, and so came after me, and I beg to tender my apologies, and hers as well, for any inconvenience we may have inadvertently caused you."
If she contrived to slip into the house in his absence, he could provide against that contingency by sending a second
card privately to the police station, forbidding the officer to stir in the affair until he had received further orders.