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He had seen plenty of life in his own country, in the nine years since he was twenty, and he knew all about roulette and trente et quarante, among other things desirable and undesirable. Still, gambling seemed to be made particularly fascinating here, and he wanted to be fascinated, wanted it badly.
Enough to keep you from remembering those lights over there." "They're nothing to me," he assured her. "I don't believe I'll ever want to see them again. There are other places where I can do better than at Monte Carlo. Baccarat's a safer game than roulette or trente et quarante, I begin to think, and I could adapt the system " "Never mind the system now!
See also Vambéry, Western Culture in Eastern Lands; General Sir T. E. Gordon, "The Reform Movement in Persia," Proceedings of the Central Asian Society, 13 March, 1907. E. G. Browne, "The Present Situation in Persia," Contemporary Review, November, 1912. Vambéry, La Turquie d'aujourd'hui et d'avant Quarante Ans, pp. 11-12.
Many a fine whiskered Prussian or French dandy, come to the bath for the "Trente et quarante" cast glances of longing toward the pretty, fresh-colored English girl who accompanied the pale widow, and would have longed to take a turn with her at the galop or the waltz.
"Most interesting!" exclaimed Mademoiselle Herzog. "Pshaw!" said Savinien with ironical indifference, "it takes the place of 'trente et quarante, and is better than 'odd or even' on the numbers of the cabs which pass." "And what do the pigeons say to that?" asked Pierre, seriously. "They are not consulted," said Serge, gayly. "Then there are races and regattas," continued Savinien.
Letter to the queen, date February 19th, 1791; "Correspondance de Mirabeau et La Marck," ii., p. 229. "Mirabeau et La Marck," ii., pp. 153, 194, et passim. "Souvenirs de Quarante Ans," p. 54. "Mirabeau aurait préféré que Louis XVI. sortit publiquement, et en roi, M. de Bouillé pensait de même." Mirabeau et La Marck, i., p. 172. 1789, see ante, p. 256.
They said: "The bonnet rouge!-that's Monseigneur; 'quarante onces! that's Cinq-Mars; 'tout finira! that's De Thou. What a providential incident! His Eminence reigns over the future as over the present."
I. e., the increase of self-government granted India by Britain as a result of the Montagu-Chelmsford Report. E. Bevan, "The Reforms in India," The New Europe, January 29, 1920. Vambéry, La Turquie d'aujourd'hui et d'avant Quarante Ans, p. 58. The assembly of religious notables. A. H. Lybyer, "The Turkish Parliament," Proceedings of the American Political Science Association, Vol.
It was the roulette table she chose. That seems a law of her sex. The true solution is not so profound as some that have been offered. It is this: trente et quarante is not only unintelligible, but uninteresting.
Twice in the week concerts are executed by the first performers of the opera-bouffe; and twice in the week invitations to tea-parties are sent to some of the neighbours, or accepted from them. Besides four billiard-tables, there are other gambling-tables for Rouge et Noir, Trente et Quarante, Faro, La Roulette, Birribi, and other games of hazard.
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