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The young Frenchman did very well what he had planned to do. His guess that the Duke would cheat proved good. As the unshod half-dozen figures that had been standing noiselessly in the entryway stole softly into the shadows of the chamber, he leaned across the table and smilingly plucked a card out of the big Englishman's sleeve.
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Classical in form, cool, intimate and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Booth Tarkington
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 127
- Publisher
- Easton Press, eBooksLib, Murray
- Editions
- 58
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781399753999
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