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Updated: June 16, 2025
Just imagine, at night when he was going to bed he hid his gold in his boots, and when we played at bezique he used beans, because one day I pounced down on the stakes for fun. But that doesn't prevent my being fair. The emperor was right." Lea shook her head with an air of superiority, as became a woman who was repeating the opinions of important personages.
Thus he waited patiently until politeness would permit him to bring to an explanation the former friend and companion-in-arms of his father. In the morning he rode on horseback; gave a lesson in fencing to his cousin Sigismund, the son of Madame de la Roche-Jugan; then shut himself up in the library until the evening, which he passed at bezique with the General.
Picard was the box-opener of the Sainte Mesmes, and that he, Prince of Nérins, had had the honor of being for a long time a friend of that good Mme. Picard. It was she who in the last years of the Second Empire had taught him bezique in all its varieties Japanese, Chinese, etc. He was then twenty, Mme. Picard was forty.
The Squire's wife had the punch-bowl all ready in the south room, where the parties were held. Some pipes were laid out there too, and a great jar of fine tobacco, and the cards were on the mahogany card-table four packs for bezique. Abigail herself opened the door, admitted the guests, and ushered them into the south room.
From thence he could see Mont Blanc, which especially at sunset showed all its splendour, and the blue levels of the lake stretching towards Clarens and the Rhone Valley, where the unfortunate Rousseau had wandered, loved, and suffered. Just now in the twilight, the old man sat in his arbour walk and played bezique with the local pastor, when the post arrived.
"We played a game of bezique, and then he repeated his breviary while I read a little book which he happened to have in his pocket, and which was not by any means badly written." "A religious book, uncle?" "Yes, and no, or, rather no. It is the history of their missions in Central Africa, and is rather a book of travels and adventures. What these men have done is very grand."
The baron sighed: "How can it be helped, daughter? We can do nothing." The following day the baron and his wife went away, and Jeanne and Julien were left alone. Cards now became a distraction in the life of the young people. Every morning after breakfast, Julien would play several games of bezique with his wife, smoking and sipping brandy as he played.
I had thought of slipping away to put on another shirt and waistcoat, but had decided that this would make me the more ridiculous. I sat drinking port poison to me after champagne, but a lulling poison and listened to noblemen with unstained shirtfronts talking about the Australian cricket match.... 'Is Rubicon Bezique still played in England? There was a mania for it at that time.
And when he wakes he has just one glass of hot water and sugar, with a little Lochnagar. And then he is equal to any thing backgammon, bezique, or even conversation." Impatient as I was, I saw nothing better; and by this time I was becoming used to what all of us must put up with the long postponement of our heavy cares to the light convenience of others.
How much a point?" "Ten francs, if that is not too much." "Not at all! I was about to propose that amount myself." A quick movement of curiosity ran through the assembly, and a circle was formed around the two opponents in this exciting match. Every one knows that bezique is played with four packs of cards, and that the number of points may be continued indefinitely.
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