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Updated: May 7, 2025
I believe I've rubiconed you again, Mr. Wickham." "Well, I don't understand women's taste, anyhow," said Hickson. "You never spoke a truer word than that, my dear," said Nancy. "Seventy-four fifty, I think that makes it, Mr. Wickham, subtracting the dollar and a half you made on the first game. Oh, yes, a check will do perfectly. I'm less likely to lose it."
Raoul literally dazzled Martha by his inexhaustible fertility of wise expressions and technical terms. Piquet? With pleasure. So there they sat, face to face. There were there eight or ten card-tables piquet, bezique, whist, etc. The works were in full blast. First game, and papa Derame is rubiconed; the second game was going to begin when a footman arrives with a despatch for M. Chamblard.
The young man declared, and that game was played in silence. I regret to say that the young man was Rubiconed, and was thirty shillings in the elder's debt. "We'll stop if you like" said the elder man kindly. "Oh, no," said the youth with nonchalance, "I'll pay you now if you like." "Not at all, I didn't mean that," said the older man with a sudden prick of honour.
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