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At Boulogne he cleaned them all out at baccarat." "And lost heavily next day, and left without paying." "The facts of the case have not been satisfactorily established. Have you seen him do tricks with cards? He used to be very fond of card tricks; and, by Jove! now I remember, there was a time when ladies came to consult him. He had two pieces of paper folded up in the same way.
"I couldn't think what had happened to you!" she exclaimed in an anxious tone. "But here is your membership card, Sylvia. Now you are free of the Baccarat tables!" Monsieur Wachner met his wife with a frowning face. He might be pleased to see Madame Wachner, but he showed his pleasure in an odd manner.
I recall your virtuous indignation at the amount of paper floated by poor W towards the end of the great baccarat term. Poor devil! He paid up or his father did and took his name off the books. He's in Ceylon now, I believe. At length you have earned a partial right to sympathise: or. would have if only you had paid up." "Take care, Gervase." "My good Sir, don't miss my point.
But I will not stay to see you lose the good money you have made with the help of our kind friend, Madame Sylvia. Yes, I will go away and leave you, my poor Fritz." And suiting her action to her words, she put her arm familiarly through Sylvia's and together they walked out of the Baccarat Room, followed by Chester.
But he vowed a bitter revenge and swore to dance till three in the morning at the Montevarchi's and finish the night with a rousing baccarat at the club, which projects he began to put into execution as soon as was practicable. In due time the guests departed, solemnly renewing their expressions of good wishes, and the Saracinesca household was left to itself.
In the Baccarat Room most of the men were in evening clothes, and the women with them, if to Chester's eyes by no means desirable or reputable-looking companions, were young, pretty, and beautifully dressed. Still, the English lawyer felt a thrill of disgust at the thought that Sylvia Bailey could possibly be part of such a company.
They say that you are tireless, even when you are out of office." Hunterleys turned from the speaker towards his wife. "I have not tempted fortune myself yet," he observed. "I think that I shall have a look into the baccarat room. Do you care to stroll that way?" Lady Hunterleys rose at once to her feet. Mr. Draconmeyer, however, intervened. He laid his fingers upon Hunterleys' arm.
"In which case you bet on the horses?" interrupted Marechal. "Or on the boats." "In fact, betting is applied to all circumstances of life?" "Exactly; and to crown all, we have the Cercle, where we go in the evening. Baccarat triumphs there. It is not very varied either: A hundred louis? Done Five. I draw. There are some people who draw at five.
In his earlier life he had served Lord Bromley in the Indian jungle during the famine; had been second man at the country seat of the Duke of Valmoncourt at the time of the baccarat scandal, and later on had risen to the position of chief butler in the establishment of an unpopular Roumanian general.
A score of gentlemen of high rank and immense wealth were enjoying a quiet game of baccarat, when it was observed that M. F was winning in a most extraordinary manner. He was watched and detected in the very act of dexterously slipping some cards into the pack he held.
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