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If that happens, and the banker calls out "rouge gagne, couleur perd;" then the scene changes, and the same persons whom you have just seen so gay, make a sudden transition from joy to sadness, and vice versa.
"Perd," said O'Leary, "again. Divil another song you sing than 'perd, and I'm not quite clear you're not cheating all the while only, God help you if you are!"
It was only a minute the croupier dealt the cards "Rouge perd, et couleur," he cried, paid the smaller stakes, and then, counting out gold and notes, pushed over to her what was, in fact, a sufficiently large sum, and which, to her inexperienced eyes, seemed enormous. "Who is she?" asked one or two of the bystanders of each other. "She has been winning all the evening."
"Quand on perd, par triste occurrence, Son esperance Et sa gaité, Le remède au mélancolique C'est la musique Et la beauté. Plus oblige et peut davantage Un beau visage Qu'un homme armé, Et rien n'est meilleur que d'entendre Air doux et tendre Jadis aimé!" It haunted him after he had gone to rest, and for once he did not mind wakefulness. A week passed.
"There is a song of Musset's you know it, perhaps beginning 'Quand on perd, par triste occurrence' which he has set, to my mind, perfectly. I want him to publish it. If he does I must let you see it." Irene did not know the verses and made no remark. "There are English men of business," pursued Otway, "who would smile with pity at Moncharmont. He is by no means their conception of the merchant.
Royston shook his head impatiently; he was too proud to save his credit by dissembling a defeat; and his reply was quick and decisive. "Vous me flattez, M. le Vicomte. Quand on perd, on doit, au moins l'avouer loyalement, et payer l'en jeu. Cette fois j'ai tant perdu, que je ne prendrai pas la revanche."
Sometimes the moralising becomes tiresome. "Vraiment Miss Edgeworth est digne de l'enthousiasme, mais elle se perd dans votre triste utilite," said Madame de Stael to M. Dumont when she had read the Tales. In that age of romantic fiction an attempt to depict life as it really was took the reading world by surprise.
In her youth, she was beautiful and fascinating, with numerous lovers and numberless suitors, but she grew even more famous as her age increased; when infirm and blind, and living in a convent, she ruled by virtue of her acknowledged authority and was still able to cope with the greatest philosophers, the chief and dean of whom, Voltaire, wrote the following four lines: "Qui vous voit et qui vous entend Perd bientôt sa philosophie; Et tout sage avec Du Deffand Voudrait en fou passer sa vie."
«Mais toutes ces matières qui tombent, ne sont pas perdues pour les montagnes; il s'en perd même bien peu. Elles s'arrêtent au pied des rochers dont elles sont successivement détachées; et l
The tailleur dealt, and the croupier intoned, "La'! Rouge gagne et couleur perd:" the mechanical raking and dexterous chucking followed. This, with a low buzzing, and the deadened jingle of gold upon green cloth, and the light grating of the croupiers' rakes, was the first impression upon Zoe's senses; but the mere game did not monopolize her attention many seconds.
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