Crossword-Solution: BASTO 5 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Even Miss Pole quite forgot to say “my lady,” and “your ladyship,” and said “Basto! ma’am”; “you have Spadille, I believe,” just as quietly as if we had never held the great Cranford Parliament on the subject of the proper mode of addressing a peeress.

The ace of spades, or Spadille, was always the first trump; the ace of clubs (Basto) always the third.

And, besides, there’s Basto, the big Pyrenean dog, and,--oh, here comes little Quiz, mamma’s little Maltese--Quiz, Quiz.’ Dolores started, she did not like either dogs or cats; and the little spun-glass looking dog smelt about her.

Not you, Dolores, but Miss Constance.’ ‘Oh that dog! I wish you would not take him.’ ‘Not take dear old Basto! Why ‘tis such a treat for him to get a walk in the morning--the delight of his jolly old black heart.

Could I, my old man?’ Never having lived with animals nor entered into their feelings, Dolores could not understand how a dog’s pleasure could be preferred to her comfort, and felt a good deal hurt, though Basto’s antics subsided as soon as they were past the inner gate shutting in the garden from the paddock, which was let out to a farmer.