The book English Whist And English Whist Players was written by author Courtney, William Prideaux, 1845-1913 Here you can read free online of English Whist And English Whist Players book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is English Whist And English Whist Players a good or bad book?
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This indiscreet youth — for to irritate a judge before whom you may be called to plead is hardly a sign of worldly wisdom — feigned himself intoxicated, stood by the table looking over the Chief Justice s cards, and proved himself as trouble- some as he could. Willes could stand it no longer, and turned sharply on the youth. With a pretence at staggering, and with a profusion of stammering, came the retort : ' Sir, I — beg pardon — but I wanted to improve in p p-playing whist, so— so— I came to... Digitized by VjOO^ IC 138 ENGLISH WHIST look over you ; for if — if I am not mistaken, sir, you are a judge.' The domestic life of Lord Thurlow cannot be recommended as a model for imitation in after-life by the rising student of the law, but by the side of Willes he might pose as a paragon of virtue. The sturdy mind of Thurlow, who loved to wrestle conclusions with his fellow-man, would have reveUed in the struggle of a game at whist, but the pursuit had not been followed by him in his youth, and in his old age the imperfections of his play were ever in his mind.
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