... will stay at home to-morrow, Willie. Thus talking they enter the hall where a meal is prepared, and afterwards they play chess, and then sit lovingly talking in the twilight about their boy, Robin, and his archery, and his old Saxon stories of Hereward ...

... the Exhibition with Kate Polly was working up a piece by Chopin, to play at a charity concert. My father pro posed a game of chess. I am sorry I cannot join you, replied the captain. I am engaged to Fred for the afternoon. That is unfortunate, said my ...

... think with a sigh of the great briskly-burning logs on her mother's hearthstone, when song and dance and minstrelsy, a game at chess or blind man's buff, or some other romping game, had sped such hours jovially away. And terrible was it when storms raged, ...

... suddenly, and, finding it too dark to draw, she, too, rose, and said to Marcia Vernon, Shall we resume our struggle on the chess board, Marcia And the friends sat down in a snug corner near the fire. Her position was impregnable had she given a little ...