A PAIR OF BLUE
75
EYES.
'Club laws, I think you said?' returned
Knight blandly, and mercilessly appropriating the queen.
She was on the brink of pouting, but
was ashamed
to
in her eyes.
She had been trying so hard
—
so very hard
show
it
tears almost stood
—thinking
and thinking
her brain was in a whirl so heartless of '
I think
him
it is
—
and
it
seemed
to treat her so, after '
till
all.
she began.
'What?' '
—Unkind
to take advantage of a
pure
mistake I make in that way.' '
I lost
take,'
said
my
rook by even a purer mis-
enemy, in an inexorable
the
tone, without lifting his eyes.
'Yes, but
—
'
However,
as
his logic
was absolutely unanswerable, she merely registered
a
protest.
'I
cannot
endure
those cold-blooded ways of clubs and professional players, like
Just as
if it really
Staunton and Morphy. mattered whether you
have raised your fingers from a
man
or no.'
