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Besides these Gaming-Rooms, there are others, where Sweetmeats, Wine, Lemonade, and other Refreshments may be purchased, the Haughty Nobility of Venice not disdaining to turn Tavern-keepers at this season of the year.
The Count held him by the other arm, and in this fashion they emerged on the square, which now lay in darkness save for the many lights twinkling under the arcade and in the windows of the gaming-rooms above it.
Vivian went on. "Do you wish to convert him to paganism?" Bernard asked. "The lectures were very dull; they had no redeeming features," said Angela, getting up, but turning away from her mother. She stood looking at Bernard Longueville; he saw she was annoyed at her mother's interference. "Every now and then," she said, "I take a turn through the gaming-rooms.
Very sick at heart, George entered the gaming-rooms alone, and laid out on the green cloth the last of his capital. Then occurred one of those strange and compete reversions of luck that come to very few men. Georges won continuously, without a break, throughout the entire day.
He leaves them tomorrow: he comes back here for a day on his way to England. Somerset was silent. Dare continued: 'Now I have done you a favour, will you do me one in return? Somerset looked towards the gaming-rooms, and said dubiously, 'Well? 'Lend me two hundred francs.
From the fanciful stone embroidery of her churches and palaces to a hundred singularities in dress and manners the full-bottomed wigs and long gowns of the nobles, the black mantles and head-draperies of the ladies, the white masks worn abroad by both sexes, the publicity of social life under the arcades of the Piazza, the extraordinary freedom of intercourse in the casini, gaming-rooms and theatres the city proclaimed, in every detail of life and architecture, her independence of any tradition but her own.
There was a mental reservation behind Mrs. Halstead's surface cordiality, and the bewitching Angelica seemed too seraphically sweet and gentle to ring quite true. Vernon was a type with which in a more crude stratum of humanity she had become familiar in the gaming-rooms of the Blue Chip.
Between the acts most of them swarm out into the adjacent corridors leading to the gaming-rooms, licensed rooms these, with toy-horses ridden by tin jockeys, and another equally delusive and tempting device of the devil a game of tipsy marbles, rolling about in search of sunken saucers emblazoned with the arms of the nations of the earth.
It was at Homburg, several years ago, before the gaming had been suppressed. The evening was very warm, and all the world was gathered on the terrace of the Kursaal and the esplanade below it to listen to the excellent orchestra; or half the world, rather, for the crowd was equally dense in the gaming-rooms around the tables. Everywhere the crowd was great.
It all began, this morning, with my being forced to go and play roulette for Polina Alexandrovna. For, I could not suppose that she was doing all this merely for the sake of money. Yet clearly she did need some money, and that as soon as possible, and for a special purpose. Well, she promised to explain matters, and I departed. There was a tremendous crowd in the gaming-rooms.
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