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...c discharge was jerked by chance at the usher and the governess—at the old game, it seemed; or why did they keep steering columns to meet? There was n... ...nti- cally similar situation, that forced a resemblance. T ouching the old game, Cuper’s fold was a healthy school, owing to the good lead of the head... ...ame, Cuper’s fold was a healthy school, owing to the good lead of the head boy, Matey Weyburn, a lad with a heart for games to bring renown, and no th... ...ng to the good lead of the head boy, Matey Weyburn, a lad with a heart for games to bring renown, and no thought about girls. His emulation, the fello... ...ng to the good lead of the head boy, Matey Weyburn, a lad with a heart for games to bring renown, and no thought about girls. His emulation, the fello... ...defence—train to rejoice in whipcord muscles. The son of a tradesman, if a boy fell under the im- putation, was worthy of honour with him, let the fel... ...w grip and toughness. He loathed a skulker, and his face was known for any boy who would own to fatigue or confess himself beaten. “Go to bed,” was on... ...running from a corner. She had, as Aminta had, the self-collected and self-cancelled look, a realm in a look, that was neither depth nor fervour, nor ... ...ield with never a man in it—just the shadow of a man. She admitted the ten cancelled the one, and exactly named to me, by comparison with the erring A...

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...re many Lilias in the brood, However deep you might embower the nest, Some boy would spy it.’ At this upon the sward She tapt h... ... here at Christmas.’ She remembered that: A pleasant game, she thought: she liked it more Than magic music, forfeits, all the r... ..., a plot, a plot to ruin all!’ ‘No plot, no plot,’ he answered. ‘Wretched boy, How saw you not the inscription on the gate, Let no man enter in on pa... ...ence follows many a vacant pang; but O With me, Sir, entered in the bigger boy, The Head of all the golden-shafted firm, The long-limbed lad that had ... ....’ ‘Poor boy,’ she said, ‘can he not read—no books? Quoit, tennis, ball—no games? nor deals in that Which men delight in, martial exercise? To nurse a... ....’ ‘Poor boy,’ she said, ‘can he not read—no books? Quoit, tennis, ball—no games? nor deals in that Which men delight in, martial exercise? To nurse a... ...th iron laws, in the end Found golden: let the past be past; let be Their cancelled Babels: though the rough kex break The starred mosaic, and the b... ...hat idiot legend credible. Look you, Sir! Man is the hunter; woman is his game: The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, We hunt them for the be...

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...e a girl. Now child, from the moment of the birth of this girl - Perhaps boy, my mother took the liberty of putting in. I tell you I have a presen... ... she? Ma am, returned Mr. Chillip, I apprehended you had known. It s a boy. My aunt said never a word, but took her bonnet by the strings, in the... ...omething. I look at my mother, but she pretends not to see me. I look at a boy in the aisle, and he makes faces at me. I look at the sunlight coming i... ... hair. There was another boy, one Tommy Traddles, who I dreaded would make game of it, and pre- tend to be dreadfully frightened of me. There was a th... ...diately on his arrival, in this form of introduction, Look here! Here s a game! Happily, too, the greater part of the boys came back low-spirited, ... ...ue. In her death she winged her way back to her calm untroubled youth, and cancelled all the rest. The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of ... ...n and mine too. But I heard, afterwards, that he was seen to play a lively game at skittles, before noon. 201 David Copperfield Vol. I On the first... ... time, however short or long it may have been, so unused to the sports and games of boys, that I knew I was awkward and inexperienced in the commonest... ...gnes quickly away. Then I saw, as though all the intervening time had been cancelled, and I were still standing in the doorway on the night of the dep...

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...ch a child was merely a piece of base coin that couldn’t be invested—a bad Boy—nothing more. Mr Dombey’s cup of satisfaction was so full at this mo- m... ...nd her having, in the course of events, given birth to a girl instead of a boy: which, as Mrs Chick had frequently observed, was not quite what she ha... ...mbey come to see you. Won’t you speak to him? They want to lay your little boy—the baby, Fanny, you know; you have hardly seen him yet, I think—in bed... ... room door -with a well-accus- tomed hand. From beneath a leaf of torn and cancelled scraps of paper, he took one letter that remained entire. Involun... ...e font—a rigid marble basin which seemed to have been playing a churchyard game at cup and ball with its matter of fact pedestal, and to have been jus... ...t place after all; for Berry played with them there, and seemed to enjoy a game at romps as much as they did; until Mrs Pipchin knocking angrily at th... ...ctor Blimber and Mr Feeder, were resumed. 168 Dombey & Son As the Olympic game of lounging up and down had been cut shorter than usual that day , on ... ...y backgammon a little too,’ replied the man of teeth. ‘Carker plays at all games, I believe,’ said Mr Dombey , lay- ing himself on a sofa like a man o... ...s power, and liked to show it. Nevertheless, Mr Carker played so well—some games with the Major, and some with Cleopatra, whose vigilance of eye in re...

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...oming face and sweet open expression, had begun, at Gertrude’s entreaty, a game of French billiards. Gertrude had still her childish sunny face and br... ...ase of his elder sons, and the home atmosphere was not such as to give the boy a sense of superiority, espe- cially when diligently kept down by his b... ...a’s.’ ‘Very pretty of him and you, Ritchie; but he is not three parts of a boy or man who thinks of his womankind’s wishes when there is anything spir... ...im.’ ‘Well, I suppose one may do one’s duty without being three parts of a boy,’ said Richard, gravely. ‘I know it is true that some of the most saint... ... ardour and even the chivalry of their nature into the contest. The annual game had been delayed by the illness in the spring, and the school had lost... ... Stoneborough might have had a chance. But when ‘All England’ went in, the game seemed to be more equally balanced. Aubrey May, in spite of devoted pr... ...nestly, following her back to the house, ‘you do not think the Coombe days cancelled?’ ‘If you mean my hopes of you,’ said Ethel, with a swelling hear... ...r display of the cariosities of the place, and explanations of the curious games and puzzles taught by ‘Mr. T om.’ Ethel, watching the sweet wist- ful... ...times, more trying to Averil than all, she would live over again the happy games with him, or sing their favourite hymns and chants, or she would be h...

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...d a brother in London, who had run away from his Kentish home when a small boy, and found refuge at a Bank. The position of Anthony Hackbut in that ce... ... that he was worsted as regarded the illus- tration, and with a bit of the boy’s fear of the pedagogue, he fought Anthony off by still pressing the ar... ...dark red curtains, a fire, and a smell of sawdust; ale, and tobacco, and a boy going by outside whistling a tune of the day. Some- body comes in. “Ah,... ...late.” “Why, that’s safest, brother Tony,” said the farmer. “And safe’s my game—always was, always will be! Do you think”—Anthony sucked his grog to t... ...d his respectability (as Anthony had chosen to put it), he got up a little game in his head by guessing how much the amount might positively be, so th... ...e twenty,” bawled Algernon, in an extremity of disgust. “Don’t I know what game you’re following up? Isn’t it clear as day you’ve got an- other woman ... ...looks. “Come! I’ll speak out now I’m at work. I thought you at some girl’s games in the Summer. You went out one day to meet a young gentleman. Offenc... ... boxer in the neighbourhood like Robert Eccles, nor such a champion in all games, nor, when he set himself to it, such an invincible drinker. It was h... ...the young squire. The great misery intervening, seemed in her mind to have cancelled all earthly engagements; and when he said that she must use care ...

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...veryone looked on it as a bad prospect, but no one thought of the “convict boy” as in the immediate future, as my mother was still quite a young woman... ... same yellow curly hair, in tight, frizzly rings all over her head, like a boy’s, a light complexion, and blue eyes, in a round, pug-nosed face; and s... ...nswered. “Yes, but I meant the ones you killed when you were a little tiny boy.” “I don’t remember,” he said, as if to stop the subject, hat- ing, as ... ...d about that talk; mamma was angry with me; and when Dermot, in a poetical game a little after, sent me some verses—well, with a little more blar- ney... ...rmer “Dragon’s Head” a place where they might smoke, read the papers, play games, and have any refreshment such as coffee, tea, or ginger-beer, at whi... ...rmer “Dragon’s Head” a place where they might smoke, read the papers, play games, and have any refreshment such as coffee, tea, or ginger-beer, at whi... ...ong service in?” “It won’t ever cancel that—” I tried to tell him what had cancelled all; but perhaps I did not do it well enough, for he did not seem... ...these October days, when I was trying to satisfy my discontented Dora by a game at ball upon the steps, to my extreme astonishment I beheld a white po...

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... What I say is, it was all very well and we got on very well while I was a boy, utterly regardless of this same suit; but as soon as I began to take a... ...d, I found, and Caddy was milling his chocolate, which a melancholy little boy who was an apprentice—it seemed such a curious thing to be apprenticed ... ...will play—children like—instead of attending to their work. So the little boy you saw just now waltzes by himself in the empty kitchen, and we distri... ...generally lose), money is the word. Now, sir, upon the chances of Mr. C.’s game I express to you no opinion, no opinion. It might be highly impolitic... ...y not even you have any idea, sir,” this to the debilitated cousin, “what games goes on!” The cousin, who has been casting sofa pillows on his head, ... ...y not even you have any idea, sir,” this to the debilitated cousin, “what games goes on!” The cousin, who has been casting sofa pillows on his head, ... ...mous whist player for a large stake—say a hundred guineas certain—with the game in his hand, but with a high reputation involved in his play ing his ... ... handwriting. It is duly executed and attested. And even if intended to be cancelled, as might possibly be supposed to be denoted by these marks of fi... ...ght possibly be supposed to be denoted by these marks of fire, it is not cancelled. Here it is, a perfect instrument!” “Well!” said my guardian. “Wh...

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...r accounts poorly for the husband’s conduct, however solemn a business the game of whist. We read that he burst out at last, with bitter mimicry, ‘yan... ...its 9 George Meredith shadow on our giddy upper-circle, the rigour of the game of life, relaxed though it may sometimes appear, would satisfy the sta... ...d behind her. Oth- ers were wrangling for places, chairs, plates, glasses, game- pie, champagne: she had them; the lady under his charge to a certaint... ... at it now. And down heer’ll be no better soon, I tells ‘em. When ah was a boy, old Hampshire was a proud country, wi’ the old coaches and the old squ... ... be, would never show the same old cricketing commons it did when he was a boy. Old England, he de- clared, was done for. When Redworth applied to his... ...re those of the finely- bred English; he had the English taste for sports, games, manly diversions; and in the bloom of life, under thirty, his head w... ...woeful disappointment. He wrote like a veteran; he is not much more than a boy. I re- ceived a volume of verse, and a few lines begging my accep- tanc... ...re was manifestly a spot where women had dropped from the secondary to the cancelled stage of their extraordinary career in a world either blowing the... ...eir lost light in them, her step was brisker; she challenged him to former games of conversation, excursions in blank verse here and there, as the moo...

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...ol of Saint-Denis. The half- scholarship obtained by Keller for the eldest boy, Charles, was transferred to the second in 1830, when Charles entered t... ...ting one of these luminous talks; “the altar is dressed; begin your little game.” If these anterior facts and all these generalities were not placed h... ...uillotte,” at five sous a stake, occupied Madame Minard, who knew no other game, Colleville, old Monsieur Saillard, and Bandoze, his son-in-law. The s... ...uffed by a coldness which was not natu- ral in so sociable a man. When the game of bouillotte came to an end, Colleville seized the moment to draw Thu... ...ed, and each had to go by his number, which the wine-merchant, or his shop-boy, affixed to the hats of the man and the backs of the women. Sometimes t... ...se. We’ll continue to help you at both ends, but you’ll have to pay up, my boy. After what has just happened that’s pretty kind, isn’t it?” 134 The L... ...ew house for eighteen years, and I’ll hand you back one of your five notes cancelled, and you shall not find me any longer in your way. But you will h... ...version from bouillotte and boston. Old-fashioned and venerable, those two games were forced to beat a retreat before whist, the only manner, said the...

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... believing in God and the Heavens – and believing that in repudiating the game of competition for survival that she would be fed nonetheless like any... ...nly loving oneself mirrored from a dissembler, and that a desirable young boy, a specious palliative, with shirt sticking out of his jeans and socke... ...n rummaging through her purse and obtaining her identification. "Doo boy?" "Dubois." "Okay, Dubois, Kenyon. Age late thirty-something... ...nt of virility but a loss of freedom. The brevity of ovulation makes it a game of chance. Chapter Four How odd the world is: each individual ... ... supposed to be so precious, and yet potential conception predicated on a game of procreative levity and frivolity of forced insertion and capitulati... ...s so heinous, when nature has designed continuity of the race on rides and games of chance. Even murder is to be justified, if not condoned, as the ... ...ien grandeur. I actually loved those outings. Sometimes appointments were cancelled and deferred, but we did go to them eventually. I would be tong...

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...im, even at the age of threescore and eight, and had said in awful voice, “Boy, take down your pant—”? Well, well, Miss Sedley was exceedingly alarmed... ... Mrs. Crisp was summoned from Buxton, and abruptly carried off her darling boy; but the idea, even, of such an eagle in the Chiswick dovecot caused a ... ...s reconciled the recommendation to her conscience, and the indentures were cancelled, and the apprentice was free. The battle here described in a few ... ... “Does she really think I am handsome?” thought he, “or is she only making game of me?” We have talked of Joseph Sedley being as vain as a girl. Heave... ... Jos a glass of Champagne. Boney himself hasn’t got such in his cellar, my boy!” A goblet of Champagne restored Joseph’s equanimity, and before the bo... ...gh you invariably lose) very fond of a rubber. What good dinners you have— game every day, Malmsey-Madeira, and no end of fish from London. Even the s... ...us nature; but Miss Sharp said her dear mother used often to play the same game with the old Count de Trictrac and the venerable Abbe du Cornet, and s... ...in about him; for George was a jolly sociable fellow, and excellent in all games of skill. Once, after three days of absence, Miss Amelia put on her b... ...ed in at the Old Slaughters’, and called for Captain Cannon; played eleven games at billiards with the Captain, of which he won eight, and returned to...

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...ocal under changing circumstances in the position of the sun, &c. I knew a boy who, upon observing steadily, and reflecting upon a phenomenon that met... ...ulfil them. This eldest brother of mine was in all respects a remark- able boy. Haughty he was, aspiring, immeasurably active; fertile in resources as... ...sented, with a shower of stones, an affront offered to us by an individual boy, belonging to a cotton factory: for more than two years afterwards this... ...ght have violated in regard to this general brother, in right of Adam, was cancelled when it came into collision with my paramount duty to this liege ... ... and the general pursuit commenced, which brought all parties (hunters and game) sweeping so wildly past the quiet grounds of Greenhay. The sequel of ... ... thrown a ball beyond the prison bounds in playing at tennis, or some such game, Sir Sidney was surprised to observe that the ball thrown back was not... ...the public service, government obtained a partial triumph by the law which cancelled the debt on a refusal to receive the state paper, and which quart... ...advanc- ing from all points; and a few moves were all that remained of the game, played with whatever skill. Colonel Vereker, with about 300 of the Li... ...out, not for Panem et circenses, (Give us this day our daily bread and our games of the circus,) but for Panem et literas, (Give us this day our daily...

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...h, yes! At the proper Jubilee—the Fifty Year affair—I was down at Wookey—a boy. I missed all that… . What a fuss we had with him! My landlady wouldn’t... ...ho answered in guttural tones and with words Graham did not recognise. The boy then went to conduct an incomprehensible mono- logue in the corner, and... ...ling, and holding some palpably new garments over his arm. The crop-headed boy, by means of one finger, was impelling the complicated machine towards ... ... that to the wrong man altogether. Eh! as if I should believe. What’s your game? And besides, we’ve been talking of the Sleeper.” Graham stood up.” Li... ... the rich was natu- rally to keep property intact, the board clear for the game of trade. Just as the feudal concern had been to keep the board 115 H... ...tight as the ma- chine lifted its nose again for an ascent. “That’s not my game. I want to do it myself. Do it myself if I smash for it! No! I will. S... ...ar service, and it was now invariably invoked by such players of chess and games of manual dexterity as were still to be found. In fact, all operation... ...undertaking which, every five minutes, paid a dividend of ten per cent and cancelled a certain proportion of its shares by means of a lottery wheel. T... ... seem afraid. In his former life he had often been more excited in playing games of skill. He was desirous of immediate action, he knew he must not th...

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...tful impressions. Indeed there are times when I fear I have the heart of a boy, and certainly nothing more calamitous can be conceived, supposing that... ... On some points my sister is not a bad match for me. She can beat me seven games out of twelve at chess; but the five I win sequently, for then I am a... ... On some points my sister is not a bad match for me. She can beat me seven games out of twelve at chess; but the five I win sequently, for then I am a... ...nd I could not commence with a single question. He appears to, have really cancelled the past in every respect save his calling me his goddaughter. Hi...

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...od the business, Say not that I alone am fond of prey. I found this little boy in a recess Under Cyllene’s mountains far away— ... ...side stood harping fearlessly _565 The unabashed boy; and to the measure Of the sweet lyre, there followed loud and free His... ...ittle profit, going far astray Through the dun night. Farewell, delightful Boy, Of Jove and Maia sprung,—never by me, Nor thou, nor other songs, shall... ... within the bubbling caldron. _225 I am quite sick of the wild mountain game; Of stags and lions I have gorged enough, And I grow hungry for the fl... ...lean, _15 67 Shelley T rained to the sport and eager for the game Wide ranging in his front;’ but soon were seen Though by so short a co... ...ot the citizen: for kings And subjects, mutual foes, forever play A losing game into each other’s hands, Whose stakes are vice and misery. The man Of ... ... (Locock). 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. Lines 130-169. This entire passage is distinctly cancelled in the Bodleian manuscript, where the following revised ver- sion... ...ordant span. The words bracketed above, and in Fragment 5 of our text, are cancelled in the manuscript (Locock). 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. And blighting hope, et... .... (line 152.) The word blighting here, noted as unsuitable by Rossetti, is cancelled in the Bodleian manuscript (Locock). 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. She saw betwe...

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...n Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond, the squire’s grandson. Riversley Gran... ... me. She’s crazed: you’ve made her mad; she knows none of us, not even her boy. Be off; you’ve done your worst; the light’s gone clean out in her; and... ...nsense: I tell you he’s a-bed and asleep.’ ‘I repeat, I insist.’ ‘When the boy’s fast asleep, man!’ ‘The boy is my flesh and blood. You have spoken fo... ...bjection. Somebody carried me up and undressed me, and promised me a great game of kissing in the morning. The next day in the strange house I heard t... ...s commit such a breach of the rules and decency as to troop away while the game was hot, and sur- round my father, flung the cricket-ball into the mid... ...t you’ve got to do. I’d like to see you horsed, only to see whether you’re game to take it without wincing—if it didn’t hurt you much, little lad.’ He... ... his put in its place. He grew pale and sad, but did his work, playing his games, and only letting his friends speak to him of lessons and play. His c... ...r word, my Case. I inher- ited from him at his death; of course his demise cancelled the engagement. He had been the friend of personages im- 406 The... ...Meredith on them for performances. And that same man afterwards fought the gamest fight in the chronicles o’ the Ring! I knew he had it in him. But th...

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...im, even at the age of threescore and eight, and had said in awful voice, “Boy, take down your pant—”? Well, well, Miss Sedley was exceedingly alarmed... ... Mrs. Crisp was summoned from Buxton, and abruptly carried off her darling boy; but the idea, even, of such an eagle in the Chiswick dovecot caused a ... ...s reconciled the recommendation to her conscience, and the indentures were cancelled, and the apprentice was free. The battle here described in a few ... ... “Does she really think I am handsome?” thought he, “or is she only making game of me?” We have talked of Joseph Sedley being as vain as a girl. Heave... ... Jos a glass of Champagne. Boney himself hasn’t got such in his cellar, my boy!” A goblet of Champagne restored Joseph’s equanimity, and before the bo... ...gh you invariably lose) very fond of a rubber. What good dinners you have— game every day, Malmsey-Madeira, and no end of fish from London. Even the s... ...us nature; but Miss Sharp said her dear mother used often to play the same game with the old Count de Trictrac and the venerable Abbe du Cornet, and s... ...in about him; for George was a jolly sociable fellow, and excellent in all games of skill. Once, after three days of absence, Miss Amelia put on her b... ...ed in at the Old Slaughters’, and called for Captain Cannon; played eleven games at billiards with the Captain, of which he won eight, and returned to...

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... cru elly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peep ing over the parapets into ... ... still on Jarndyce and Jarndyce, “to the young girl—” “Begludship’s pardon—boy,” says Mr. T angle prematurely. “In reference,” proceeds the Chancellor... ... proceeds the Chancellor with extra distinct ness, “to the young girl and boy, the two young people”— Mr. T angle crushed — “whom I directed to be in... ...edent and usage: over sleeping Rip Van Winkles who have played at strange games through a deal of thundery weather; sleeping beauties whom the knight... ...edent and usage: over sleeping Rip Van Winkles who have played at strange games through a deal of thundery weather; sleeping beauties whom the knight... ... my first lesson in backgammon from Mr. Jarndyce, who was very fond of the game and from whom I wished of course to learn it as quickly as I could in ... ...nd real, which it was—it appeared to him that it was the same as coin, and cancelled the obligation. “It may be, partly, because I know nothing of the... ...ry suit had imparted to his nature some thing of the careless spirit of a gamester who felt that he was part of a great gaming system. Mr. and Mrs. B... ...ry suit had imparted to his nature some thing of the careless spirit of a gamester who felt that he was part of a great gaming system. Mr. and Mrs. B...

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...ch a child was merely a piece of base coin that couldn’t be invested—a bad Boy—nothing more. Mr Dombey’s cup of satisfaction was so full at this mo- m... ...nd her having, in the course of events, given birth to a girl instead of a boy: which, as Mrs Chick had frequently observed, was not quite what she ha... ...mbey come to see you. Won’t you speak to him? They want to lay your little boy—the baby, Fanny, you know; you have hardly seen him yet, I think—in bed... ... room door -with a well-accus- tomed hand. From beneath a leaf of torn and cancelled scraps of paper, he took one letter that remained entire. Involun... ...e font—a rigid marble basin which seemed to have been playing a churchyard game at cup and ball with its matter of fact pedestal, and to have been jus... ...t place after all; for Berry played with them there, and seemed to enjoy a game at romps as much as they did; until Mrs Pipchin knocking angrily at th... ...ctor Blimber and Mr Feeder, were resumed. 168 Dombey & Son As the Olympic game of lounging up and down had been cut shorter than usual that day , on ... ...y backgammon a little too,’ replied the man of teeth. ‘Carker plays at all games, I believe,’ said Mr Dombey , lay- ing himself on a sofa like a man o... ...s power, and liked to show it. Nevertheless, Mr Carker played so well—some games with the Major, and some with Cleopatra, whose vigilance of eye in re...