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In the former he was not only a fair but a generous player. He played exceedingly well, despite his spectacles; but he gave, with something of a Frenchman's lofty fanfaronnade, larger odds to his adversary than his play justified. In dominos, where such odds could not well be given, he insisted on playing such small stakes as two or three francs might cover. In short, M. Lebeau puzzled Graham.
"Willingly, Monsieur Georges. Garcon, the dominos." "Have you been playing at billiards?" asked M. Georges. "Yes, two games." "With success?" "I won the first, and lost the second through the defect of my eyesight; the game depended on a stroke which would have been easy to an infant, I missed it."
Lithe and portly-figured men, bearing dominos in their hands, saunter along the sidewalk, now dangling ponderous watch-chains, then flaunting highly-perfumed cambrics all puffing the fumes of choice cigars. If accosted by a grave wayfarer they are going to the opera! They are dressed in the style of opera-goers.
As I went down once more to the ball-room two pretty female dominos attacked me right and left, telling me that Messer-Grande was waiting for me outside. They then asked me for some snuff, and I gave them a box ornamented with an indecent picture. I had the impudence to touch the spring and shew it them, and after inspecting it they exclaimed,
"No; I happened to be in this neighbourhood on business, and walked in, as I might into any other cafe." "You don't interest yourself in the great social questions which are agitated below the surface of this best of all possible worlds?" "I can't say that I trouble my head much about them." "A game at dominos before M. Georges arrives?" "Willingly.
But first, in order to take in with eye and mind the whole city and its position, let us leave Aeneas, and crossing to the right bank of the Tiber by the Pons Aemilius, let us climb to the fort of the Janiculum, an ancient outwork against attack from the north, by way of the via Aurelia, and here enjoy the view which Martial has made forever famous: Hinc septem dominos videre montes Et totam licet aestimare Romam, Albanos quoque Tusculosque colles Et quodcunque iacet sub urbe frigus.
While many of these feats were being performed, M. Leonard snapped a whip violently, to prove that the animals were so completely under discipline, that they would not heed any interruption. After many other performances, M. Leonard invited a gentleman to play a game of dominos with one of them.
Unhappy pride how many forms it assumes, and who is without his own peculiar form of it? The next day I sent to the gentleman-cobbler's a tradesman with dominos, masks, and gloves; but I took care not to go myself nor to send my page, for whom I had an aversion which almost amounted to a presentiment.
As I went down once more to the ball-room two pretty female dominos attacked me right and left, telling me that Messer-Grande was waiting for me outside. They then asked me for some snuff, and I gave them a box ornamented with an indecent picture. I had the impudence to touch the spring and shew it them, and after inspecting it they exclaimed,
She knew of only one group of Hamilton girls who would be bold enough to deliberately defy the strictest rule of Hamilton College. The masked company were attired in black dominos; all save one who appeared to be a kind of sinister master of ceremonies. This one wore a domino of bright scarlet silk and a leering false face mask that was hideous in the extreme.
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