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Updated: May 1, 2025
His winnings were hardly enough to grow wealthy upon; some nights ten louis; others twenty-five; on special occasions Sagreda would retire with as many as forty gold coins in his pocket.
A club companion, who was wandering from one salon to the other with a bored expression, stopped near the players interested in the game. At first he remained standing near Sagreda; then he took up his position behind the viscount, who seemed to be rendered nervous and perturbed at the fellow's proximity. "But that's awful silly of you!" the inquisitive newcomer soon exclaimed.
He was approaching his fortieth year, but he was still the beau Sagreda, as he had long been nicknamed by the noctambulous women of Maxim's and the early-rising Amazons of the Bois.
Then, with a quivering hand, he thrust the heap of gold coins toward his friend. "This belongs to you." "But, my dear Velazquez.... Why, Sagreda!... Permit me to explain, dear count!..." "Enough, sir. I repeat that I understand."
After them, the vast wheat fields of Castilla and the ricefields of Valencia, and the villages of the northern provinces, had gone into strange hands, all the princely possessions of the ancient counts of Sagreda, plus the inheritances from various pious spinster aunts, and the considerable legacies of other relatives who had died of old age in their ancient country houses.
And he saluted, like a true noble, walking off proudly erect, the same as in the most smiling days of his opulence. With his fur coat open, displaying his immaculate shirt bosom, Count de Sagreda promenades along the boulevard.
And likewise his other friends, and even the servants who bowed to him with their accustomed respect as he passed by, were in the secret. And he, the poor dupe, was going about with his lordly airs, stiff and solemn in his extinct grandeur, like the corpse of the lengendary chieftain, which, after his death, was mounted on horseback and sallied forth to win battles. Farewell, Count de Sagreda!
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