They'll keep a strict watch over you, my friend, because you've played the lion too much.

Just before I left the States, as you call them, a new slang phrase was going the rounds;--'it is better to play the fox some of the time than to roar all of the time.' Ergo, be foxy.
Take it cool.

So long as you haven't got that mint packed about your person, the game breaks even." "But the king!" "Is as secure on his throne as he ever was.

If you do not present those consols, either for renewal or collection, on the twentieth, he loses nothing.

As you said, let us hope that the chambermaid is a shifty, careless lass, who will not touch your room till you return." Maurice broke an egg and dropped a lump of sugar into his cup.
"Is this the way you fight Indians ?" "Indians?
What the deuce has fighting Indians to do with this?
As to Indians, shoot them in the back if you can.