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Updated: June 16, 2025
If you wish to seek your revenge at some other game, I am entirely at your service." The Marquis looked at the clock, calculated that he had still half an hour to spare, and, not more for the purpose of "playing to the gallery" than in the hope of reducing the enormous sum of his indebtedness, he replied: "Will it be agreeable to you to play six hands of bezique?" "Certainly, Monsieur.
Hubbard had been condescension itself and had even gone the length of excusing Miss Pringle from the evening's game of bezique, in order that she might have a farewell chat with her friend.
I wrote regularly every morning from eight till twelve or one o'clock before rising. I was not alone, for I had a mountain sparrow, a great pet, which sat, and indeed is sitting on my arm as I write these lines. The Marchese Doria has a large property at Spezia, and my dear friend Teresa Doria generally spent the evening with us, when she and I chatted and played Bézique together.
She read the papers to him, walked up and down the terrace with him while he smoked, and played bezique with him late into the night, to distract his thoughts. And where were hers, while each day's bulletin from Compton Hall was worse than the last?
Indeed, the old fellows up on the Ettersberg often held discourses over their bézique which were almost blasphemous, if you consider that they were talking about the greatest man of Germany; without whom Germany would not be Germany; the man to produce whom nature labored for thousands of years, tossed up millions and millions of stupid or average heads, more or less lacking in sense and reason.
What will they talk of politics? Ah bah! Let them have long evenings together while their elders play chess or a hand at bezique. What game will they play? A much older game than chess or bezique, I fancy." "But the circumstances were so exceptional," protested the Marquis, who had a pleased air, as if his anger were not without an antidote.
I I'm going to play a game of bezique with Madame Maloir. I prefer doing that." The bell interrupted her remarks. That was the last straw. Another of the beggars yet!
Then she had added: "Some day, I strongly suspect, some man will amuse himself breaking that fiery temper of yours. I wish I were not so old, I think that I should enjoy knowing that he had succeeded." And the incident had ended, as always, with a few angry tears on Nora's part, as a preliminary to the inevitable game of bezique which finished off each happy day!
"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."
It is just five paces off, and I hear each of the slow and softly-enunciated words that follow. "I hear that you have sent for a fly! how very thoughtful of you! did you ever forget any thing, I wonder? I was no not dreading my drive home; but now I am quite looking forward to it. Why did you not bring a pack of cards? we might have had a game of bézique."
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