CARD FORTUNE TELLING
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—
although this
of Diamonds and Nine of Diamonds
happy result will be delayed for a time, through some fair
young man, not famed for his delicacy. Eight of Hearts
and Ten of Hearts love, joy, and triumph. The Queen of
Spades, who remains alone, is the widow who is endeavouring to injure you, and who finds herself abandoned by all
Jack
—
her friends
Now
!
gather up the cards you have been using, shuffle
and cut them with the left hand, and proceed to make
them into three packs by dealing one to the left, one in the
middle, and one to the right
a fourth is laid aside to form
a " Surprise." Then continue to deal the cards to each of
;
the three packs in turn, until their
when
number
is
exhausted,
found that the left-hand and middle packs
contain each five cards, whilst the one on the right hand
will be
it
consists of only four.
Now
ask the person consulting you to select one of the
We will suppose this to be the middle one,
three packs.
and that the cards comprising it are the Jack of Diamonds,
the King of Diamonds, the Seven of Spades, the Queen of
Spades, and the Seven of Clubs. These, by recollecting
our previous instructions regarding the individual and
relative signification of the cards, are easily interpreted as
follows
" The Jack
of
no delicacy of
feeling,
:
—a
fair
who
seeks to injure
young man, possessed of
the King of
Diamonds a fair man in uniform Seven of Spades and
the Queen
will succeed in causing him some annoyance
Clubs
—
—
—
—
—
—at the instigation of a spiteful woman— Seven
—but by means of a small sum of money matters
of Spades
of Clubs
will
be finally easily arranged."
Next take up the left-hand pack, which
"
is
" for the
—the former one having been for the lady
house
Supposing
it
to consist of
the Queen
herself.
of Hearts, the
Jack