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...se come and visit us… you know my brave boy… been together out there… both playing the hero… Ah, V asili Ignatovich… How d’ye do, old fellow?” he said... ...d hear: 52 War and Peace – Book Four “Do you remember we had a talk about cards… ‘He’s a fool who trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and I wan... ...ell, you’d better not play,” Dolokhov added, and spring- ing a new pack of cards said: “Bank, gentlemen!” Moving the money forward he prepared to deal... ... lost, staked again, and again lost. Dolokhov “killed,” that is, beat, ten cards of Rostov’s running. “Gentlemen,” said Dolokhov after he had dealt fo... ...Dolokhov after he had dealt for some time. “Please place your money on the cards or I may get muddled in the reckoning.” One of the players said he ho... ...cious of it, were standing by the clavichord, happy and smiling. V era was playing chess with Shinshin in the drawing room. The old countess, waiting ... ...room. The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. Denisov... ...cing room where the clavichord stood. Sonya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to Denisov’s favorite barcarolle. Natasha was preparing... ...roposed. To whom? To this chit of a girl, Natasha, who not so long ago was playing with dolls and who was still having lessons. “Don’t, Natasha! What ...

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...y hands him the money BORKIN. Thanks. Shabelski, you still hold some trump cards. SHABELSKI follows him out. SHABELSKI. Well, what are they? BORKIN. I... ...ome and sit down here. LVOFF . I can’t sit down. [A pause.] ANNA. They are playing “The Sparrow” in the kitchen. [She sings] “Sparrow, Sparrow, where... ...he room on small chairs. KOSICH, AVDOTIA NAZAROVNA, GEORGE, and others are playing cards in the background. GABRIEL is standing near the door on the r... ...on small chairs. KOSICH, AVDOTIA NAZAROVNA, GEORGE, and others are playing cards in the background. GABRIEL is standing near the door on the right. Th... ...! KOSICH. [Furiously] I’ll be damned if I ever sit down to another game of cards with that old cat! He rushes into the garden. The SECOND GUEST follow... ...ip. SHABELSKI. Oh, yes, we all know that! W e know how badly you play your cards! T ell me, Paul, honestly, have you saved up a million yet? LEBEDIEFF... ... Where did you blow in from? KOSICH. From Barabanoff’s. He and I have been playing cards all night; we have only just stopped. I have been abso- lutel... ...d another diamond. Well, he didn’t take the trick. [T o LEBEDIEFF] We were playing three in clubs. I had the ace and queen, and the ace and ten of spa... ...lam! Only that man Barabanoff spoilt the whole game for me again. W e were playing—well, I said “No trumps” and he said “Pass.” “T wo in clubs,” he pa...

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...her words, that it would certainly not prevent his unwrapping a new pack of cards and shuffling them that evening while a footman placed fresh candl... ... found added not a little to the pleasure of life, for he had a capacity for cards, played good humouredly, and cal culated rapidly and astutely, so ... ... his usual easy and pleasant way, invited friends to his house for a game of cards, and also tried going out to his club or spending his evenings with... ...atted a little about politics, a little about general topics, a little about cards, but most of all about official appointments. Tired, but with the f... ...em. This was nei ther dull nor amusing. It was dull when he might have been playing bridge, but if no bridge was available it was at any rate better ... ...ial pleasures were those of vanity; but Ivan Ilych’s great est pleasure was playing bridge. He acknowledged that whatever disagreeable incident happe... ...eon — which is THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH Tolstoy 27 forbidden — and sit up playing cards till one o’clock in the morn ing.” “Oh, come, when wa... ...strate who was a desirable match for his daughter, and they were conversing, playing the piano, and singing. Ivan Ilych, as Praskovya Fedorovna THE DE... ... them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. Now they are playing.” (He heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its...

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...hought. “I used to 9 Tolstoy understand what a ‘corner’ and the stakes at cards meant, but carrying forward to another page I don’t understand at all... ...ht Rostov, “yet what wouldn’t it be worth! It is not to be! Everywhere, at cards and in war, I am always unlucky.” Memories of Austerlitz and of Dolok... ...f a balalayka on which someone, who was evidently a master of the art, was playing. Natasha had been listening to those strains for some time and now ... ...hord, pure and sonorous, and then quietly, smoothly, and confidently began playing in very slow time, not My Lady, but the well-known song: Came a mai... ...m: “What is it moves me so?” Nicholas too was greatly pleased by “Uncle’s” playing, and “Uncle” played the piece over again. Anisya Fedorovna’s smilin... ...re still the count’s games of whist and boston, at which-spreading out his cards so that everybody could see them—he let himself be plun- dered of hun... ...room at the round table, copying a design for embroidery. The countess was playing patience. Nastasya Ivanovna the buffoon sat with a sad face at the ... ...nting, having just run in through the cold from the serfs’ quarters. “Stop playing—there’s a time for everything,” said the old woman. “Let her alone,... ...estibule. There an old footman and two 41 Tolstoy young ones were playing cards. They broke off and rose as she entered. “What can I do with them?” t...

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... guishable honour and glory of their fame. But here I see them weeping and playing cards and flying into passions like everybody else. TREPLIEFF comes... ...le honour and glory of their fame. But here I see them weeping and playing cards and flying into passions like everybody else. TREPLIEFF comes in with... ...t I wish to challenge him to a duel his nobility does not prevent him from playing the coward. He is about to beat an ignominious retreat. ARKADINA. W... ... of a melancholy waltz are heard in the distance.] PAULINA. Constantine is playing. That means he is sad. MASHA silently waltzes a few turns to the mu... ...onous game, but it is all right when one gets used to it. [She deals three cards to each of the players.] TREPLIEFF. [Looking through the pages of the... ...cent dress; I am no fool when it comes to clothes. PAULINA. Constantine is playing again; the poor boy is sad. SHAMRAEFF. He has been severely critici... ... claret and the beer here, on the table, so that we can drink while we are playing. Sit down, friends. PAULINA. And bring the tea at once. She lights ...

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...t the piano, as if about to sing. Two elderly gentlemen enter. Julia stops playing.) The elder of the two gentlemen, Colonel Daniel Craven, affects th... ...ntly; then returns to sofa and sits, pulling out his handkerchief and dis- playing some emotion.) CHARTERIS (a little impatiently). The fact is, Cuthb... ...Grace—by the way, Cuthbertson, I wish you’d ask her not to write on letter-cards: the blue colour makes it so easy for Julia to pick the bits out of m... ...HARTERIS. Yes. I wish you wouldn’t write on those con- founded blue letter cards. SYLVIA (to Grace). Shall I go down first and secure a table? 38 The... ...ore have behaved as you do when I was a young man than I’d have cheated at cards. I belong to the Old Order. CHARTERIS. You’re getting old, Craven; an... ...tory outburst.) Well, perhaps I shouldn’t have said that about cheating at cards. I withdraw it (offering his hand). CHARTERIS (taking Craven ’s hand)...

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... No, I really can’t think of anything—unless, Torvald— Helmer. Well? Nora (playing with his coat buttons, and without raising her eyes to his). If you... ... that might happen. How are the children? Nurse. The poor little souls are playing with their Christ- mas presents, but— Nora. Do they ask much for me... ... way. Helmer. Not so violently, Nora! Nora. This is the way. Helmer (stops playing). No, no—that is not a bit right. Nora (laughing and swinging the t... .... Helmer. Stop, Rank; this is sheer madness. Stop, I tell you! (RANK stops playing, and NORA suddenly stands still. HELMER goes up to her.) I could ne... ...Henrik Ibsen Nora (at the window). The letter—No! Torvald, no! Helmer. Two cards—of Rank’s. Nora. Of Doctor Rank’s? Helmer (looking at them). Doctor R... ...about it? Has he said anything to you? Nora. Yes. He told me that when the cards came it would be his leave-taking from us. He means to shut himself u...

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...t on the side of the head for tellin me that if I only knew how to play me cards I could marry any general on the staff instead o disgracin you be bei... ...? (She listens for the answer.) Well, I can have General Mitchener without playing any cards at all. What dye think I ought to say? (She listens.) Wel... ...ns for the answer.) Well, I can have General Mitchener without playing any cards at all. What dye think I ought to say? (She listens.) Well, Im no chi...

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...hekhov time of the same things, while the concertina went on play- ing and playing. The patches of sunshine had been on the floor, then they passed to... ...pectable-looking old man in spec- tacles, rather like Marshal Bazaine, was playing the piano; a young man with a fair beard, dressed in the latest fas... ...e piano; a young man with a fair beard, dressed in the latest fashion, was playing the violin. The young man had a face that did not look stupid nor e... ...tch’s beard. The whole evening till supper-time he was singing, whistling, playing noisily with the dog and racing about the room after it, so that he... ...definite object, but simply enjoying its freedom. The sun has risen and is playing on the snow; bright drops are falling from the station roof and the... ...nd nights, rarely longer. At six o’clock they had dinner, then they played cards, sang, danced; at last they had supper. The day was over, they went t... ... of that scurvy little town was terrible. If it had not been for women and cards I believe I should have gone out of my mind. Well, it’s an old story:... ...d in a duel, gone out of his mind, been sent into exile, or had cheated at cards?” The first-class passenger was so excited that he dropped his cigar ... ...om the furthest corner of the compartment. That is N. N., the famous T ula cardsharper who was had up in connection with the Y. bank affair.” “There y...

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...ng everybody around you. But when it is you who lose fifty four roubles at cards – that is of no consequence in your eyes.” “That is a different matte... ...d and very stupid lady in a wig, a widow who owned a music shop; she loved playing cards and played remarkably well. But it was Eugene Mihailovich’s w... ...ry stupid lady in a wig, a widow who owned a music shop; she loved playing cards and played remarkably well. But it was Eugene Mihailovich’s wife who ... ...it was Eugene Mihailovich’s wife who was the winner all the time. The best cards were continually in her hands. At her side she had a plate with grape... ...t one of the whist tables when his turn came, and beginning to shuffle the cards. VI EUGENE MIHAILOVICH had actually used the coupon to buy firewood f... ...themselves; going out for drives in the evenings and quite late at nights, playing the piano or the violin, and singing and dancing. He saw the la di... ...ches, both of them – having earned great applause for his fine singing and playing the piano, began telling the company about the strange convict who ... ...part with her, and did not notice how time was passing. The musicians kept playing the same mazurka tunes over and over again in desperate exhaustion ... ...e unbearable. She yearned for something real, for life it self – not this playing at living, not this skimming life of its cream. Of real life there ...

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...nd the swish of the bow cutting the calm baywater, and the sound of a band playing, that came alter- nately faint and loud. “When I git rich,” Fuselli... ... intricate endless adventures; a great musician, he would sit at the piano playing, like Chopin in the engraving, while beautiful women wept and men w... ...nd had suddenly become very active. The notes of the bugle and of the band playing “The Star Spangled Banner” sifted into his consciousness through a ... ...er came runnin’ up to me, whisperin’, ‘There’s a bunch of Fritzies playin’ cards in a dug-out. They don’t seem to know they’re captured. We’ d better ... ...adstools I came near laughin’. An’ they sat round the lamp layin’ down the cards serious-like, the way I’ve seen Germans do in the Rathskeller at home... ...an envious glance in the window of the Cheval Blanc, where he saw officers playing billiards in a well-lighted room painted white and gold, and a blon... ... the Frenchmen, who sat about on logs in their pink and blue shirt-sleeves playing cards and smoking. Their ges- tures irritated him. “Say, tell ‘em w... ...nchmen, who sat about on logs in their pink and blue shirt-sleeves playing cards and smoking. Their ges- tures irritated him. “Say, tell ‘em we’re adv... ...ay they were adding to the paper, piling up more little drawers with index cards. It seemed to Andrews that the shiny white marble building would have...

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... “ At Homes.” At these “ At Homes” the hostess and her guests did not play cards and did not dance, but entertained themselves with various arts. An a... ...nd enchanted with his really magnificent picture. He was dancing about and playing the fool and answering serious questions with jokes. Olga Ivanovna ... ... bustling about, or the cook scrubbing a potato in the kitchen, or the dog playing, her eyes invariably expressed the same thought — that is, “Everyth... ...onservatoire, and has brought some girl- friends in with her. We hear them playing on the piano, try- ing their voices and laughing; in the dining-roo... ...the dignity with which he takes his stand beside the piano when any one is playing or singing strike me as very suspicious. Y ou may be ever so much o... ...Katya had grown fond in the Crimea. Mihail Fyodorovitch takes two packs of cards off the whatnot and begins to play patience. According to him, some v... ...ience require great concentration and attention, yet while he lays out the cards he does not leave off distracting his attention with talk. Katya watc... ... does not leave off distracting his attention with talk. Katya watches his cards attentively, and more by gesture than by words helps him in his play.... ...hes her breath in rhythmically regular gasps, very much as though she were playing the accordion, and nothing in her face is laughing but her nostrils...

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...gine me making a fool of the poor dear chap like that. It certainly wasn’t playing the game, was it now?” I don’t know; I don’t know; was that last re... ...tory … No, I cannot help wishing that Florence had left her alone—with her playing with adultery. I suppose it was; though she was such a child that o... ...orence… . She should not have done it. She should not have done it. It was playing it too low down. She cut out poor dear Edward from sheer vanity; sh... ...ith jealousy. The Casino orchestra was, as Edward remem- bered to tell me, playing the Rakocsy march, and although it was not loud enough, at that dis... ...fter twelve years of the repression of my instincts, after twelve years of playing the trained poodle. For that was all that I had been. I suppose tha... ... of his mess, till dinner-time. He would dine and pass the evening playing cards, or playing billiards with Leonora or at social functions of one kind... ...r, at any rate, for a long time. And, if Leonora had been a person to play cards and if she had played her 123 Ford Madox Ford cards well, and if she...

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...ided all distraction and recreation, and even at home did nothing but play cards with his mother, pace silently up and down the room, and smoke one pi... ...ish it for your sake.” Nicholas sighed, bit his mustache, and laid out the cards for a patience, trying to divert his mother’s attention to another to... ...aying, she softly left the room and went to the nursery. The children were playing at “going to Moscow” in a carriage made of chairs and invited her t... ...bsorbed all his attention. “How sweet!” said Countess Mary, looking at and playing with the baby. “Now, Nicholas,” she added, turning to her husband, ... ... in one of her customary states in which she needed the mental exertion of playing patience, and so—though by force of habit she greeted him with the ... ... patience and only then examined the presents. They consisted of a box for cards, of splendid work- manship, a bright-blue Sevres tea cup with shepher... ...ndifferently at the portrait and gave her attention chiefly to the box for cards. 47 Tolstoy “Thank you, my dear, you have cheered me up,” said she a... .... “Look, Anna Timofeevna,” she added to her companion, “see what a box for cards my son has brought us!” Belova admired the presents and was delighted... ...imit to which in every domain of thought man’s reason arrives if it is not playing with the subject. Electricity produces heat, heat produces electric...

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...he could be satisfied with. What had he to do, indeed? He did not care for cards; he did not go to a club. Spending the time with jovial gentlemen of ... ...olo- nel. “It’s his second Imperial prize. I wish I might have the luck at cards he has with horses. Well, why waste the precious time? I’m going to t... ...rince Tchetchensky is a well- known figure. No matter, though. He’s always playing billiards here. Only three years ago he was not a shlupik and kept ... ...reat room where tables had already been set, and the usual part- ners were playing for small stakes; the divan room, where they were playing chess, an... ...you see, some men can play but only so that they can always lay down their cards when the hour of a rendezvous comes, while I can take up love, but on... ...vous comes, while I can take up love, but only so as not to be late for my cards in the evening. That’s how I manage things.” “No, I didn’t mean that,... ...y it is, how low.... The bou- levard and the children. Three boys running, playing at horses. Seryozha! And I’m losing everything and not getting him ...

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...way Pierre remembered that Anatole Kuragin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which there was generally a drinking bout, finish... ...was a smell of alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. Pierre ... ... between them and lis- tened attentively. His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, espe... ...oms, some in the sitting room, some in the library. The count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with diffi- culty from dropping into his usual ... ...nd it seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. “Do you think so?… Rea... ...hed back in the sitting room where the count and Marya Dmitrievna had been playing cards with the major- ity of the more distinguished and older visit... ... in the sitting room where the count and Marya Dmitrievna had been playing cards with the major- ity of the more distinguished and older visitors. The... ... real war, but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, pretending to do something real. Prince Andrew gaily bore with his...

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...g is unhealthy; that alcoholic drinks are demoralizing; and that play- ing-cards are the devil’s picture-books. But though the factories in which cott... ...il’s picture-books. But though the factories in which cotton, whiskey, and cards are manufactured are stringently regulated under the fac- tory code a... ...ens instead of cottons, ginger- beer instead of whiskey, Bibles instead of playing- cards, he will be forbidden to place his products on the market. I... ...ad of cottons, ginger- beer instead of whiskey, Bibles instead of playing- cards, he will be forbidden to place his products on the market. In the cas... ...hope to be damned; for I have no taste for pious company and no talent for playing the harp— I know no more of that horse’s whereabouts than you do yo...

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...illy youngsters, who still need thrashing! They want to be paid a salary for playing pitch farthing and dawdling about, that’s all they’re fit for. It... ...e refreshment room into the tea room, then into the room where they were now playing cards, and then straight into the hall where they were now dancin... ...hment room into the tea room, then into the room where they were now playing cards, and then straight into the hall where they were now dancing the po... ...atting him two or three times on the cheek, tickling him two or three times, playing with him for a few seconds in this way while his victim stood rig... ... ment. “I slept well, sir … but allow me to tell you, sir, that you are playing a very complicated game …” “Who says so? My enemies say that,... ...in justly observed about them, were capable of nothing but hanging about and playing pitch farthing at every opportunity—little by little collected ro... ...l marry you to a count!’… And now she has come forward herself and shown her cards, as though to say that’s her little game! Instead of keeping her at...

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...s mother stuffed him with jam; his father let him run about barefoot, and, playing the philosopher, even said he might as well go about quite naked li... ...aticum to some sick per- son in the neighbourhood, caught sight of Charles playing about the fields, he called him, lectured him for a quarter of an h... ... when the close 10 Madame Bovary streets are empty, when the servants are playing shuttle-cock at the doors, he opened his window and leaned out. The... ...aid “Good-bye”; there was no more talking. The open air wrapped her round, playing with the soft down on the back of her neck, or blew to and fro on h... ...ayed behind amusing themselves plucking the bell-flowers from oat-ears, or playing amongst themselves unseen. Emma’ s dress, too long, trailed a littl... ...an face, whose eyes were small and the nose hooked. Clever at all games of cards, a good hunter, and writing a fine hand, he had at home a lathe, and ... ... key of G, and readily talked literature after dinner when he did not play cards. Monsieur Homais respected him for his education; Madame Homais liked... ... that bit into her chignon. With every movement that she made to throw her cards the right side of her dress was drawn up. From her turned-up hair a d... ...g on it, he drew back as if he had trodden upon some one. When the game of cards was over, the druggist and the Doc- tor played dominoes, and Emma, ch...

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... con- versation) on a little shelf hard by the cabinet. There had been men playing at cards by this candle—now everybody was quietly reposing upon the... ...tion) on a little shelf hard by the cabinet. There had been men playing at cards by this candle—now everybody was quietly reposing upon the floor alon... ...oise. He is a born gambler, is The Clever Man— and I dare say that to play cards in time of war constituted a heinous crime and I am certain that he p... ...in time of war constituted a heinous crime and I am certain that he played cards before he arrived at La Ferté; moreover, I suppose that to win at car... ...ards in time of war is an unutterable crime, and I know that he has won at cards before in his life—so now we have a perfectly good and valid explanat... ..., the R.A.’s best friend. Moreover, as I have said, Count Bragard had been playing up to the poor Spanish Whoremaster to beat the band. Ev- ery day ha... ...My father is dead! Oh, well. The war is over. Good.”—It was Jean le Nègre, playing a little game with himself to beguile the time. When we had mounted... ...ead for words. At this time Jean was immensely happy. He was continu- ally playing practical jokes on one of the Hollanders, or Mexique, or the Wander... ...ike a child. This time it was the game of l’armée française which Jean was playing.— “Jamais soldat, moi. Connais tous l’armée française.” John The Ba...