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And then, at last, that future day was absolutely brought on the tapis as though now to be named. "Three years!" ejaculated Mrs. Mountjoy, as though not even yet surrendering her last hope. Florence, from the nature of the circumstances, received this in silence. Had it been ten years she might have expostulated.
The games principally played were rouge et noir and hazard; the former producing an immense profit, for not only were the whole of the expenses of this costly establishment defrayed by the winnings of the bank, but a very large sum was paid annually to the municipality of Paris. I recollect a young Irishman, Mr. Gough, losing a large fortune at this tapis vert.
In the morning the matter would be rigidly avoided by each party until some chance occasion had brought it on the tapis, when hostilities would be immediately renewed, and carried on with the same vigor, to end as before.
It was a woman without a tapis, or tunic, dressed in a green and yellow skirt and a camisa of blue gauze, easily recognizable from her costume as a querida of the soldiery. Sisa felt as if she had received a slap in the face, for that woman had exposed her before the crowd. She raised her eyes for a moment to get her fill of scorn and hate, but saw the people far, far away.
"The grand climax is coming," he thinks, as he takes note of these things. "Blunt is getting ready to sweep the board. Well, good luck to him." Even Mustapha has discovered that something strange is on the tapis. He has a singular way of expressing it. "Poor Monsieur Constans," he whispers. "What is the matter with him?" ejaculates John, in about the same tone. "It is too bad."
Of this, however, I was not aware; although, in the present instance, I saw clearly that something of a whimsical nature was upon the tapis with my friend, and that Hermann was its especial object. As the former proceeded in his discourse, or rather monologue I perceived the excitement of the latter momently increasing.
All that remains is, a sort of consciousness, that we should be more comfortable in a house with cleaner carpets, and taken for rather longer than a week at a time. Perhaps, after all, we are quite as well sur le tapis as it is.
"Now, Japhet, I dare say that you would like to know what it was I had so particular to say to the old general this morning." "Of course I would, sir, if it concerned me." "It did concern you, for we had not been two minutes in conversation, before you were brought on the tapis.
The important question if the throne were vacated or not, by the sudden departure of the unfortunate king James, was then upon the tapis; on which, to avoid interesting himself on either side, he forbore coming to London, and crossed the country to a fine feat he had about some forty miles distant, where he resolved to stay as privately as he could, till the great decision should be made, and the public affairs settled in such a manner as not to lay him under a necessity of declaring his sentiments upon them.
You will laugh at me for suddenly remembering my dear chaperon at such an opportune moment when our dance is a thing of the past. There seems to be a general exodus, so," she added gaily, "if we follow them, even two such important personages as we are will not be noticed in our absence." "We shall go with the stream and all will be well." "But whither do they lead? What is on the tapis?"
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