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"No! this is just the hour. We have time yet for the Bois. Coachman, drive to the Bourse." "The fact is," resumed Frederic, "that gambling is one of the wants of civilized men. The 'rouge-et-noir' and 'roulette' tables are forbidden; the hells closed: but the passion for making money without working for it must have its vent, and that vent is the Bourse.
"It means," said Ernest, tearing to atoms the promissory note he received from the widow's hands, "that I had very ugly dreams last night I dreamed that I played at rouge-et-noir, and lost all the money you gave me to purchase my commission with, and then that I made up the loss by promising " "Hush!" said the widow, laying her finger on her lips. "Then it was all a dream," said the old man.
"What! offer a vieux de l'Empire five pounds? Oh, fie!" "Fiddle-dee-dee!" said the indomitable Vizard. "Besides, he will do it with his usual grace. He will approach the son of Mars with that feigned humility which sits so well on youth, and ask him, as a personal favor, to invest five pounds for him at rouge-et-noir.
Lightly her fingers closed over it, lightly as the fisherman's over the captivated trout. And whatever her generosity, it was not carried to imprudence. And if he carried off to the rouge-et-noir table the coins he obtained from her, and came for more, Mrs. Crane put on the look of a mother incensed, mild but awful, and scolded as mothers sometimes can scold.
"Oh! two are enough, you know; one deals, much more four." "Well, I don't care; rouge-et-noir then, let us have rouge-et-noir. Von Konigstein, what say you to rouge-et-noir? De Boeffleurs says we can play it here very well. Come, Grey." "Oh! rouge-et-noir, rouge-et-noir," said the Baron; "have not you both had rouge-et-noir enough? Am I not to be allowed one holiday?
Nothing seemed so strange to our inexperienced Madelon, as that everything should be unchanged; only yesterday she had been sitting quietly in the convent garden, with long years separating her from the old life and now it seemed but yesterday that she had been here. She went straight up to the rouge-et-noir table.
The croupier takes a handful of copper cash and throws it upon the table; he then with chop-sticks counts the coins by fours, the betting being upon the possible number of the remainder. It takes a long time to count a big handful, and you have only one, two, three, or four to back no colours or combinations, as at rouge-et-noir, or trente-et-quarante.
This inclosure was called the Bank, and the mysterious ceremony in which these persons were assisting was the celebrated game of rouge-et-noir.
For a moment he looked confused, but replied as he rehelped himself to the brandy, "Yes, rouge-et-noir, luck. Now, do go and see after this affair, that's a dear good woman. Get the child to-day if you can; I will call here in the evening." "Should you take her, then, abroad at once to this worthy lady who will adopt her?
Handsome still, but with a faded look, like a face that had grown pallid and wrinkled in the feverish atmosphere of vicious haunts under the flaring gas that glares down upon the green cloth of a rouge-et-noir table, in the tumult of crowded race-courses, the press and confusion of the betting-ring it was the face of a battered roué, who had lived his life, and outlived the smiles of fortune; the face of a man to whom honest thoughts and hopes had long been unknown.
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