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John required a largish floating capital to enable him to go to the desperate lengths he did at hazard and rouge-et-noir; and I am afraid that if Mr. or Mrs. Clements were to receive any of those so-called Austral dividends, they would only have been taking three hundred pounds a-year out of their principal moneys in John's immaculate keeping.
Well, anything to please you; so rouge-et-noir, if it must be so." "If all wish it, I have no objection," said Vivian. "Well, then, let us sit down; Ernstorff has, I dare say, another pack of cards, and St. George will be dealer; I know he likes that ceremony." "No, no; I appoint the Chevalier."
Monte, faro, rouge-et-noir, are the games. A large proportion of the players are diggers in shirt-sleeves and butcher-boots, belts round their waists for bowie knife and 'five shooters, which have to be surrendered on admittance. They come with their bags of nuggets or 'dust, which is duly weighed, stamped, and sealed by officials for the purpose.
At the head of the table sat a man in a gray wig, with a pair of green spectacles upon his nose, before whom lay a pile of gold, and who was busily engaged in paying and receiving money, and in giving an impetus to a small ivory ball, which spun at intervals its appointed course. Walstein soon learned that this was a rouge-et-noir table. The gentleman in the gray wig was the banker.
But there was not a face that passed in or out, which this man failed to see; not a gesture at any one of the three tables that was lost upon him; not a word, spoken by the bankers, but reached his ear; not a winner or loser he could not have marked. And he was the proprietor of the place. The other presided over the ROUGE-ET-NOIR table.
"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.
Talbot attended me: he felt he was in some measure the cause of my being first initiated in this pernicious amusement: and he watched my motions with unceasing anxiety. The game was rouge-et-noir. I threw a large sum on the red, I won, left the stake, doubled, and won again. The heap of gold had increased to a large size, and still remained to abide the chance of the card.
"Ecarte is so devilish dull," said St. George; "and it is such a trouble to deal." "I will deal for both, if you like," said De Boeffleurs; "I am used to dealing." "Oh! no, I won't play ecarte; let us have something in which we can all join." "Rouge-et-noir," suggested the Chevalier, in a careless tone, as if he had no taste for the amusement. "There is not enough, is there?" asked St. George.
For fifteen years he lived in Nice upon the meagre pittance until suddenly another fortune was left him, whereupon he promptly paid up the whole of his pension and started at the tables again. In a month, however, he had lost his second fortune. Such is gambling in the little country ruled over by Prince Rouge-et-Noir.
"Make your game, gentlemen," said this individual, "while the ball spins. Your luck's as good as mine. It's all luck, gentlemen, at rouge-et-noir. Rouge-et-noir, gentlemen, the finest in all the world. Black wins; it's yours, sir twenty ducats, and you've doubled it. Make your game black or red." "Try your fortune, Ernest," said the captain. Ernest mechanically put down a few ducats on the red.
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