took the next two tricks

If the fors and againsts of any course of action were not so intrinsically mixed, …

You give the well-spoken young man the time. The well-spoken young man, keeping well up with you, resumes: "I am aware sir that it is a liberty to intrude a further question on a gentleman walking for his entertainment […]

He grabbed the fire shovil, an' bounc'd half bent (the cheer kep him frum straitin up) all over that kitchen, a strikin over-handed, onder-handed, up-handed, down-handed, an' lef-handed, at every 'spishus shadder he seed.