With the cards thus
rejected have you no more to do. They are called the _Sacrifice_.
---- ---- ----
|XXXX| | |
|XXXX| | |
---- ---- ----
| | |XXXX|
| | |XXXX|
---- ---- ----
| | | |
| | | |
Master ---- ---- ---- FIG. 13
Column |XXXX| |XXXX|
|XXXX| |XXXX|
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---- ---- ----
| |XXXX| |
| |XXXX| |
---- ---- ----
|XXXX| | |
|XXXX| | |
---- ---- ----
The _Parallelogram_ made.
Now have you a _Parallelogram_ of One-and-Twenty Cards in
sight (Fig. 13), reduced from the Square that formerly held
Nine-and-Forty. With these One-and-Twenty now under your eyes
I will be your Querist's affair.
You may indeed ask why so much Labour is made of building the Square
only to reduce it, to despoil it, and to force it to hide or to
part with so many of its Sevens--as by a sudden Slaughter or a
Panic or a Plague. But it is held that by such prior Shufflings,
Dealings, and Placings are much cherished the accidentall
Declarings of Fates intelligence; and that by the other Processes,
embracing The _Sacrifice_, there remain for _Reading_ just the
Cards decreed; free from disposition by light-fingered Craft, or
from ticklish Arrangements by Skill.
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