Warren will soon be here, however, and then we can resume our whist parties.
It had long been my habit to attend with my grandmother, bi-monthly, an early evening whist party at the house of an elderly neighbor.
In the evening you can sit alone on the beach and think of the far-away loved one, or you can come up to the house and play whist or twenty questions.
Why, a man has to keep his brains in good trim when he plays cards, and whist is just as good a mental exercise as geometry and algebra, or any other study where the mind is engaged upon various problems.
You see I stand up for cards, for I teach whist myself and I assure you that many of the leading ladies of this city spend their time in little else than whist, which they would not do if cards were what you say.
The charmers in wide skirts had enough to do thinking of themselves; the dowagers had betaken themselves to quiet whist in the antechambers: and the absence of Blanche Vernon brought no blight upon the general enjoyment.
The Colonel dined with two Chaplains, while Platte went to a bachelor-party, and whist to follow.
He lost his money over whist and gymkhanas because they were new to him.
Haf you ever seen paper in der waste- basket, or cards at whiston der table scattered?
You know very well," she said, "that the times are changed, and that if you were Bishop of Barchester yourself you would not have whist played in the palace.
I only know," said he, "that when we had the whist we had some true religion along with it, and some good sense and good feeling also.
John Walker, Mr Winthrop, and several others of the chosen spirits of Silverbridge, were playing whist at a provincial club, which had established itself in the town, when the news was brought to them.
The Napoleonic Court, the new Foreign Minister, the campaign in Spain, the succession to the throne, were fruitful in enlivening topics of conversation over the tea or whist tables.
Those who had the entree went there after the opera at night, and played whist or billiards until two or three in the morning.
Talleyrand retired to his hotel, to play whist with Louis, Dalberg, and de Pradt, and to keep his eyes open.
Bodkin co-operated very comfortably with his curate in all church matters, he found himself not altogether able to do so at the green table, the Reverend Peter's notions of whist being confused and elementary.
Indeed, the curate's assistance at whist was only called into requisition when a second table besides the doctor's had to be made up; for, although Dr.
I took the card which she half offered me with an eagerness which might have made her suppose that I had become a confirmed whist expert during my voyage.
After supper Mademoiselle de Corandeuil proposed a game of whist to M.
The old lady, stretched out in her chair, had decided to be unfaithful to her whist in favor of conversation.
So four of them were playing whist at the table under the lamp and two were lying half in and half out of opposite upper bunks, trying to get more of the light on the pages of the books they were reading.
There was nothing doing--no whist at the table, no reading out of upper bunks, no love song from the peak, and no fierce argument on the lockers.
But it was not enough to cause collapse, and whist became plausible within half an hour after dinner.
Her objection to whist was that it was a mixture of skill and chance.
Cherami passed into a second room, which was occupied by card-players: there were two tables of whist and one of ecarte.
The count left the whist table, and, approaching Madame Monleard, examined her embroidery.
Unless Monsieur de Raincy would like to play whist with a dummy.
As if people could play whist for two minutes without a dispute!
With the exception of two elderly women at one of the whist tables, there were only men in the room; and as they were all busily engaged in playing, or watching the play, nobody noticed the arrival of the party in plaid trousers.
Whist enthusiasts close the door when there is singing in the next room.
Next came a lawyer and a doctor, enthusiastic whist players, who were constantly disputing, one being a hot partisan of the short-suit lead, the other declaring that a good player would never stoop to that.
True, the Derby came but once a year; and true, she had always heard that whist was a very gentlemanly game and much money never lost at it.
He saw that his presence rather silenced the young men; and left them to themselves, confiding in Clive's parole, and went away to play his honest rubber of whist at the Club.
Monsieur and Mademoiselle Habert, who could play bothwhist and boston, now came every evening to the Rogrons.
The court cards, aces, and tens of an ordinary Whist pack are selected, and to each king a name is given.
The old tale, that has so often been repeated, that Whist was invented purposely to entertain, during his moments of sanity, an English sovereign who had lost his reason, may or may not be true.
The chief advantage of Short Whist lies in the fact that the trumps may be made special instruments of power.
Proper sets of Zetema cards may be bought of any ordinary card dealer, though in the absence of them Whist cards may be made to answer the purpose instead.
She even wished that Whist were more simple than it is, and saw no reason for the deciding of the trump by the turn of the card.
It is needless to say that Sarah Battle's dislike to play Whist for nothing is not by any means generally shared by Whist players.
Quadrille, she told me, was her first love, but Whist was the soldier game--that was her word.
Independently ofWhist being one of the best in-door games that have ever been introduced, it is certainly the finest exercise of memory that, in this form, we could have.
The game of Snap may either be played with the ordinary Whist cards or with special cards prepared for the purpose, though perhaps when the former are used it is for the simple reason that there are no real Snap cards at hand.
For Long Whistfour players are required, and a complete pack of fifty-two cards.
In all these little variations upon the real game ofWhist each honour counts as one point.
Scoring at Long Whist ten tricks before your adversaries have scored five.
But Mrs. MacHugh said nothing about Miss Stanbury, except that she sent over a message with reference to a rubber of whist for the next night but one.
There were two whist tables, for Miss Stanbury could not bear to cut out.
And I'd sooner play whist with men I don't like, Grindems, than I'd not play at all.
The bad rider, like the bad whist player, pays highly for what he does not enjoy, and should be thanked.
Grant, who are always quarrelling, and that poking old woman, who knows no more of whist than of algebra.
He was a whistplayer himself, and perhaps might feel that it would not much amuse him to have her for a partner.
Three old ladies of her own age used to come to play whist and gossip with her.
Since then she had played her game of whist alone.
Parr was accustomed to amuse himself in the evening with cards, and whist was his favourite game.
The limit used to be twenty-six times, but since the insurance people have been playing Hyde and seek the best bridge whistauthorities have put the limit down to eighteen.
There, Gladys, if you follow these rules I think you can play the game of bridge whist without putting a bruise on the Monroe doctrine.
Dear John, I am sure that if I could play bridge whist loud enough to win four dollars every once in a while I could spend a large bunch of the summer at the seashore.
