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No tire-woman on the plantation was busier than Patty during the first few days of his stay. After that he grew sulky and vented his spleen on poor Tom, winning more money from him at billiards and picquet. Since the doctor was too much the macaroni to ride to hounds and to shoot ducks, time began to hang exceeding heavy on his hands. Patty and I had many a quiet laugh over his predicament.
But you hear some pretty queer stories about him if you get among people who knew him in the old days. Even now I'm not so dashed sure I should care to play cards with him. Young Threepwood was telling me only the other day that the old boy took thirty quid off him at picquet as clean as a whistle.
I was importuned by his jargon 'He had been pigeoned only last night of no less than seven hundred pounds! Repetitions, imprecations, and lies, all of the same kind, succeeded as fast as he could utter them! I know all this ought to have put me upon my guard; and I know too that it did not. I believe I had some lurking vanity in my mind; a persuasion that I could beat him at picquet.
Leiden allowed him, his candles were snuffed, and my uncle and I made our way to the hall together: There my aunt and Mr. Allen were at picquet. "Supper is insupportably late," says she; with a yawn, and rings the hand-bell. "Scipio," she cries, "why are we not served?" I took a stride forward. But my uncle raised a restraining hand.
But our scattered videttes almost wholly escaped it; whilst over the main body of the picquet, sheltered as it was by the ditch, and considerably removed from its line, it passed entirely harmless. Having fired this volley, the enemy loaded again, and advanced. We saw them coming, and having waited till we judged that they were within excellent range, we opened our fire.
At low tide this channel was the whole river, with broad, oozy marshes on each side; at high tide the marshes were submerged, and the stream was a mile wide. This was the point which I had selected. To ascertain the numbers and position of the picquet on the opposite causeway was my first object, as it was a matter on which no two of our officers agreed.
He and the aide-de-camp at times beguiled the road with a game of picquet: for myself, I disapprove of cards." "Doubtless you told them so at an early stage?" I suggested, with a last effort at irony. "I was obliged to, seeing that the General challenged me to a partie; but I did not, I hope, adopt a tone inconsistent with good fellowship.
Ber-ridge " "Well, let's have a game, then. Anything for something to do. Curse this rain! We shall be cooped up here till dinner at this rate." "Double dummy's a frightfully rotten game," said Spennie. "Ever played picquet? I could teach it to you in five minutes." A look of almost awe came into Wesson's face, the look of one who sees a miracle performed before his eyes.
He bent down, stroked her cheek and smiled. 'Caterina, that is foolish, said Lady Cheverel. 'I wish you would leave off those stage-players' antics. She jumped up, arranged the music on the harpsichord, and then, seeing the Baronet and his lady seated at picquet, quietly glided out of the room.
The first attempt to stem the tide was made by detachments of the Guides and 1st Punjab Infantry, but these were not strong enough to retake the picquet, and could barely hold their own.
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