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As when two mighty giants step out of a host and engage, the armies stand still in expectation, and the puny privates and commonalty remain quiet to witness the combat of the tremendous champions of the war: so it is said that when the Contrebanque arrived, and ranged itself before the officers of Lenoir rouleau to rouleau, bank-note to bank-note, war for war, controlment for controlment all the minor punters and gamblers ceased their peddling play, and looked on in silence, round the verdant plain where the great combat was to be decided.
They called themselves in their pride the Contrebanque de Noirbourg: they had their croupiers and punters, even as Lenoir had his: they had their rouleaux of Napoleons, stamped with their Contrebanquish seal: and they began to play.
Not used to the vast operations of war, like his elder brother, Lenoir junior, the lieutenant, telegraphed to his absent chief the news of the mighty enemy who had come down upon him, asked for instructions, and in the meanwhile met the foe-man like a man. The Contrebanque of Noirbourg gallantly opened its campaign. The Lenoir bank was defeated day after day, in numerous savage encounters.
With a devilish forbearance and coolness, the atrocious Contrebanque like Polyphemus, who only took one of his prisoners out of the cave at a time, and so ate them off at leisure the horrid Contrebanquists, I say, contented themselves with winning so much before dinner, and so much before supper say five thousand florins for each meal. They played and won at noon: they played and won at eventide.
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