The day was damp, and they were not going to walk out, so they both went up to their sitting-room;

The intent of the policy, she said, is not to put everybody in a ditto environment, where all are expected to look and act exactly like all others.

Caron Beaumarchais (or de Beaumarchais [Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais], for he got ennobled) had been born poor, but aspiring, esurient; with talents, audacity, adroitness; above all, with the talent for intrigue: a lean, but also tough indomitable man.

Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush.