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Updated: May 9, 2025
The bout had attracted some attention, for the stakes were running high, and eight or nine men were gathered round the players, among them Sir Patrick Gee. I waited while the hand was played out. Tiverton repiqued his opponent, and joyously raked over to his side of the table four tall piles of guineas. It was my first meeting with Brocton. Chance and Margaret had brought us together again.
After dinner Claire, who was staying with the Randons until tomorrow, played picquet with Lee; and his wife, her shapely feet elevated above the possible airs of the floor, continued to draw threads from the handkerchiefs she was making for Christmas. Claire played very well and, at five cents a point, he had to watch the game. On a specially big hand she piqued and repiqued.
I could not count a single point: so had been piqued and repiqued, and capotted to the devil. All which being considered, and that Death moreover might be much nearer me than I imagined I wish I was at Abbeville, quoth I, were it only to see how they card and spin so off we set.
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