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Updated: May 31, 2025
Prudence had compelled the viscount to leave Madame d'Argeles's card-party one of the last, but as soon as he was out of the house he had rushed to the Marquis de Valorsay's to hold a conference with him, far from suspecting that he was followed, and that an auxiliary of Pascal Ferailleur and Mademoiselle Marguerite was even then waiting for him below an enemy as formidable as he was humble Victor Chupin.
Nothing could be more piquant, alert, chivalrous in short, worthy of a Frenchman than the departure of your hero for the war after that dramatic card-party, which was also a battle and what a battle! where, at the end of the conflict, he left his all upon the green cloth.
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.
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.
She had met Miss Kendall only once at a card-party and Elizabeth had learned long ago that card-parties were not functions where one went to get acquainted with people. She remembered that Miss Kendall had sat at a table near her, that she had played with a kind of absorbed fury, and had gone off radiant, bearing a huge brass tray, the winner's trophy.
'After Easter, Molly and I shall know how to behave at a card-party, but not before, said Cynthia, demurely. 'You're always fond of your quips and your cranks, my dear, said Miss Browning, 'and I wouldn't quite answer for your behaviour: you sometimes let your spirits carry you away.
Deprived of the friendly shelter of a house, guests wander forlornly about; but a graceful and ready hostess will soon suggest that a croquet or lawn-tennis party be formed, or that a contest at archery be entered upon, or that even a card-party is in order, or that a game of checkers can be played under the trees.
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