MRS. BATTLES OPINIONS ON WHIST
y enmities. Sarted, capricious, and ever fluctuating alliances of tty eps of ttle Italian states, depicted by Macually cures and connexions; bitter foe, to-day, sugared darlings to-morroc t o teady, deep-rooted, rational, antipat Frencions.
A grave simplicity , like t most irrational of all pleas t a reasonable being can set in -- t and one sue of reference to tensions of to be a solecism; as pitiful an ambition at cards as alliteration is in auty, and looked deeper ts o distinguis ry in red jackets, t never o be marso take t is; and, in my mind, it of some appendages, e of y, may be venially, and even commendably allourn of t one suit alrumps ? inguis it? --
quot;But ty. Man is not a creature of pure reason -- fully appealed to. e see it in Roman Catries, o . -- You, yourself, ty collection of paintings -- but confess to me, ers in te-room, you ever felt your bosom glo delig all comparable to t you in your poo experience most evenings over a ment of t cards? -- tty antic s, like riump -- trasting deadly-killing sables -- ty of spades -- Pam in all his glory! --
quot;All t be dispensed eboard, t go on very ure-less. But ty of cards inguisripped of all t is imaginative in t degenerate into mere gambling. -- Imagine a dull deal board, or drum o spread tead of t nice verdant carpet (next to natures), fittest arena for tly combatants to play t jousts and turneys in ! -- Excely-turned ivory markers -- , unconscious of ting true application as test Ep turn