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"I think, ladies and gentlemen, that I am Spadille this evening," he proclaimed in a voice of ice.

This disposes of inspiration altogether, for though her mother's voice is very melodious and sounds prodigiously pleasant as it murmurs 'Spadille' or 'Manille' over the card-tables, it will allow no competition, and drives all invisible musick far away.

Milbe declared that every ombre player might wish for such a spadille, and Oberamtmann Werner held a conversation with her about his different varieties of wool causing him to entertain deep respect for her intellectual faculties.

The old Landrath led the general conversation to the absorbing topic; he spoke of Sch�n and Stein with that warmth which for all ages has distinguished the staunch friends of their Fatherland in East Prussia; he was only interrupted by Herr Milbe's noisy explanations, who sought to prove to his neighbour, that yesterday he must positively have won a grand at ombre if he had played spadille at once and called for basta.

A National Assembly is spadille, but there is still a basta, a second trump which we wish to play out in East Prussia.