[59] “Let players, if they wish to play a decent game, and avoid a mischievous and annoying practice, give up the privilege accorded by [Law 91].”—Home Whist.
[60] “This refuge against boredom has fallen through. Seeing an article on suspended animation in the Contemporary Review for November 1879, I pounced upon it, thinking it might contain the recipe, and found to my disgust that the process, so circumstantially narrated, was a hoax.”
[61] “While practising these virtues you are not obliged to look pleasant unless you feel so—this would be dissimulation. Heine’s plan fulfils all reasonable requirements.
Once I said in my despairing,
This must break my spirit now,
But I bore it and am bearing,
Only do not ask me how.”
[62] He is right to some extent; the domestic rubber always closes early.
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