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His return to the saloon had chanced to coincide exactly with this demonstration, missed moreover neither by her husband nor by the Assinghams, who, their card-party suspended, had quitted the billiard-room with him.
A card-party was to me in the category with battle and murder and sudden death, from which we all petition to be delivered in the book of common prayer but how to be delivered? I could not be called suddenly to town, for I had already run that excuse to its full limit. I could not conveniently start for Europe on an hour's notice. The plea of sickness I dismissed as feminine and unworthy.
Rose and George Howard ceased their waltz. Kate's flying fingers stopped. The card-party looked up inquisitively. "Who can it be," said the Captain, "'who knocks so loud, and knocks so late, this stormy night?" The servant who threw open the drawing-room door answered him. "M. La Touche," announced Babette, and vanished.
Phebe, more sugar, please." "I will endeavor to work one up between now and then regardless of cost. Four o'clock, I believe. What is it to be? A dance?" "Holy Moses! at Mrs. Upjohn's!" "Oh, she doesn't go in for that kind of thing? A card-party, then?" "Great heavens! Mr. De Forest, are you mad? I don't doubt she struggles with herself over every visiting card that she uses, and playing-cards !"
Assisted by a sort of croupier, she did the honours of the bouillotte with that admirable sang-froid which you and I have often witnessed in some of our hostesses of fashion; and, had she not communicated to me the secret, I should have been the last to suspect, while she appeared so indifferent, that she, like those ladies, had so great an interest in the card-party being continued till morning.
I was a bad child, I have been a bad girl; but now I must be good." On the night after the tragic card-party she went to her room and kneeled down in a new spirit. She knelt, but not to cover her face, she knelt with throat strained and her fierce young face thrown back and upward. Her hands were clenched to fists and flung out and shaken at the ceiling.
The precious chance would drift by, a rich tea would presently be served; the little over-dressed, over-fed old lady was really very lonely; she went to a luncheon or card-party not oftener than two or three times a month, and she loved company. There was almost no close human need or interest in her life; she was as far from her children as was any other old lady of their acquaintance.
That was the reason why Margaret did not discover that evening that it was gone. Nobody discovered it for three days, when Viola had a little card-party. There was a whist-table for Jane, who had never given up the reserved and stately game. There were six tables in Viola's pretty living-room, with a little conservatory at one end and a leaping hearth fire at the other.
I knew that he had discovered my secret. How he had done so I cannot say. He quarrelled with me, and, in the heat of his anger, told me of his intentions. It was late one night at a card-party at your house, and just before he was so foully murdered. No doubt you, or any right-minded person for that matter, will say that this evidence only clinches the case against me.
I did not see my mother or sister all the day we were arrested, nor till the evening of the next: the one was engaged perhaps with "Rosine and the Angola", who were indisposed, and the other would not forego her usual card-party.
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