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Updated: June 16, 2025
I play a few games at Bézique with one of my daughters, for honour and glory, and so our evenings pass pleasantly enough. It is our habit to be separately occupied during the morning, and spend the rest of the day together. We are fond of birds and have several, all very tame. Our tame nightingales sing very beautifully, but, strange to say, not at night. Mr.
Holt's nightly bezique, which he played with Susan, did not seem to be going as well as usual, and elsewhere conversation was a palpable pretence. Mr. Spence, who was attempting to entertain the two daughters-in-law, was clearly distrait if his glances meant anything. Robert and Joshua had not appeared, and Mrs.
The manufacturer was talking to the Count, and through the rattle of the crazy windowpanes one caught a word here and there; shares dividends premium settling day and the like. Loiseau, who had appropriated an old pack of cards from the inn, thick with the grease of the five years' rubbing on dirty tables, started a game of bezique with his wife.
And then, there was his matchless, unfailing patience in playing chess or backgammon or draughts or bezique, whatever he perceived that the master desired. "If you really wish it," Edith said at last, coldly. "But that's what I don't understand," Thorpe urged upon her with some vigour. "If I like him, I don't see why his own daughter " "Oh, need we discuss it?" she broke in, impatiently.
This billiard expert knew only how to play bézique. This trainer of bull-dogs was the submissive slave of a poodle. This Mauvaise-Philibert was an Antigone.
When I was no more than four years old, he taught us to play casino with him and afterwards bezique. How he cried out if he got a royal sequence! With what excitement he announced a double bezique! Or if one of us seemed about to score and lacked but a single card, how intently he contended for the last few tricks to thwart our declaration!
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.
"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."
But, finally, weary of awaiting "them," and certain "they" would not show "themselves," he would fling a last glare of defiance into the shades and snarl wrathfully: "Nothing, nothing at all! there never is nothing!" Upon which double negation, which he meant as a stronger affirmative, the worthy champion would walk in to play his game of bezique with the commandant. VI. The two Tartarins.
Holt's nightly bezique, which he played with Susan, did not seem to be going as well as usual, and elsewhere conversation was a palpable pretence. Mr. Spence, who was attempting to entertain the two daughters-in-law, was clearly distrait if his glances meant anything. Robert and Joshua had not appeared, and Mrs.
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