2/26 Sure some fairy hath befriended thee. _Sept et le va, sept et le va_--I'll hear it in my ears to-night, even as Castleton sees the lap-dog. Man, you play as though you read the pack quite through." "Ah, then, you admit that there is some such thing as a talisman. I'll not deny that I have had one these last three evenings, but I feared to tell ye all, lest I might be waylaid and robbed of my good-luck charm." "Tell us, tell us, man, what it is!" cried Castleton. "_Sept et le va_ has not been made in this room before for many a month, yet here thou comest with the run of _sept et le va_ thrice in as many hours." "Well, then," continued Pembroke, still smiling, "I'll make a small confession. |