Crossword-Solution: HARDCASE 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Hardcase," said the chairman, after the formalities were gone through, "I think it was arranged that you should tell the first story.

Hardcase?" "The story I intended to start the club with to-night is one that I myself took part in in my younger days, and which, although I never related to any of the club before, I have been upon the point of relating a hundred times, when I have been invariably interrupted by someone else who had some other tale to relate.

Hardcase, the lawyer, and learning that I was, she said "The Baron left word that he would be at home some time to-morrow, or the day after for certain; that in the meantime you were to make yourself quite at home, sir." "Oh, very well," said I; "I am rather tired just at present.

Hardcase's narrative," said the doctor, modestly, "but I will do my best to add to the entertainment of the company in my humble way." "Bravo, doctor!" cried several voices at once.

Crucible, for were I to lose, an event which amounts to a dead certainty, I am perfectly sure I should not be able to pay the forfeit, even if I were to be imprisoned for it." "Perhaps you'll oblige me, Hardcase," said the antiquary.