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"Gentlemen, I decide that, according to the rules of the game, Monsieur is entitled to play the hand." "Bravo!" exclaimed one or two of my friend's supporters. "C'est idiot!" growled the malcontents. "Messieurs, faites vos jeux!" cried the croupier. The stakes were laid, the banker looked around, estimating the comparative values of the two tableaux.
Sometimes Erskine's treatment of witnesses was very jocular, and sometimes very unfair; but his jocoseness was usually so distinct from mere flippant derisiveness, and his unfairness was redeemed by such delicacy of wit and courtesy of manner, that his most malicious jeux d'esprit seldom raised the anger of the witnesses at whom they were aimed.
In fact, high jinks was one of the petits jeux with which certain circles were wont to while away the time; and though it claims no alliance with modern associations, yet, as it required some shrewdness and dexterity to support the characters assumed for the occasion, it is not difficult to conceive that it might have been as interesting and amusing to the parties engaged in it, as counting the spots of a pack of cards, or treasuring in memory the rotation in which they are thrown on the table.
He excuses these short jeux d'esprit by alleging the example of Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice and Virgil's Culex. "I hardly know," he says, "of one illustrious poet who has not prefaced his nobler triumphs of song by some prelude in a lighter strain." The short prose introductions in which he describes the poems that compose each book are well worth reading.
Marianne looked as happy as if she were going to the races; the cock as triumphant as if he had a spur through the German eagle's throat. However, there was little sale for picture post-cards or other trifles, while Paris waited for the siege. They did not help to win victories. News and not jeux d'esprit, victory and not wit, was wanted.
To prove that Clémence Isaure really did exist in Toulouse a tomb was shown which seemed to bear her name; and so strongly rooted is this belief, that her statue is held in reverence, and every year in May, even to this day, when the date for the Jeux Floraux arrives, the first thing on the programme for that solemn occasion is a formal eulogy in honor of this distinguished patroness.
*This friend of mine is a person of great quickness and talent, who, if she were not a beauty and a woman of fortune that is to say, if she were prompted by either of those two powerful stimuli, want of money or want of admiration, to take due pains would inevitably become a clever writer. As it is, her notes and 'jeux d'esprit' struck off 'a trait de plume, have great point and neatness.
He, in return, bowed very gravely and without a smile. The table in front of her was cleared now. People were beginning to consider their next coup. The voice of the croupier, with his parrot-like cry, travelled down the board. "Faites vos jeux, mesdames et messieurs." The woman made no effort to stake.
But recently our 'virtuosi' have been oppressed with a notion that, to succeed in this country, they must invade and carry by storm the 'classics' of the art, instead of adhering exclusively as of old to their own fantasies and jeux de marteaux. One composition after another by the great masters is seized upon and worried.
Anastasius had backed his hand with a pile of louis. To encourage him, and to conciliate the hostile punt, I threw down a hundred-franc note. "Les jeux sont faits? Rien ne va plus." The banker dealt, two cards to each tableau, two to himself. Anastasius, trembling with nervous excitement, stretched out a palsied little fist towards the cards.
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