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Bracegirdle: "Playing at tric-trac; so can't play the fool in your green-room to-night. On this, a musical ringing laugh was heard from outside the door, where the pseudo Bracegirdle was washing the gray from her hair, and the wrinkles from her face ah! I wish I could do it as easily! and the little bit of sticking-plaster from her front tooth. "Why, it is the Irish jade!" roared Cibber.
At two we returned to the Tower, where I served the dinner, at which time Santerre regularly came to the Temple, attended by two aides-de-camp. The King sometimes spoke to him, the Queen never. "After the meal the royal family came down into the Queen's room, and their Majesties generally played a game of piquet or tric-trac.
They waited until midnight, each pretending for the other's sake to a confidence fully sustained, each invaded by vague premonitions of evil, yet beguiling the time by playing tric-trac in the great salon, as if they had not a single anxious thought between them. At last on the stroke of midnight, madame sighed and rose. "It will be for to-morrow morning," she said, not believing it.
At two we returned to the Tower, where I served the dinner, at which time Santerre regularly came to the Temple, attended by two aides-de-camp. The King sometimes spoke to him, the Queen never. "After the meal the royal family came down into the Queen's room, and their Majesties generally played a game of piquet or tric-trac.
The doctor's face, to his thinking, wore an expression that was kind and pleasant; the pale curls of his wig seemed redolent of philanthropy; the square cut of his coat, the loose folds of his trousers, his big Quaker-like shoes, everything about him down to the powder shaken from his queue and dusted in a circle upon his slightly stooping shoulders, revealed an apostolic nature, and spoke of Christian charity and of the self-sacrifice of a man, who, out of sheer devotion to his patients, had compelled himself to learn to play whist and tric-trac so well that he never lost money to any of them.
In the 'tap' of an evening you might see the labourers playing at 'chuck-board, which consists in casting a small square piece of lead on to certain marked divisions of a shallow tray-like box placed on the trestle-table. The lead, being heavy, would stay where it fell; the rules I do not know, but the scene reminded me of the tric-trac contests depicted by the old Dutch painters.
It always seemed to young Harry Esmond that my lord treated him with more kindness when his lady was not present, and Lord Castlewood would take the lad sometimes on his little journeys a-hunting or a-birding; he loved to play at cards and tric-trac with him, which games the boy learned to pleasure his lord: and was growing to like him better daily, showing a special pleasure if Father Holt gave a good report of him, patting him on the head, and promising that he would provide for the boy.
She found the lawyer at the eternal tric-trac with Mme. de Combray, who frowned at the first word, not even interrupting her game. "'More dreams! The room is unoccupied! No one sleeps there! "'But the curtain! "'Well, what of the curtain? Your child made a draught by opening the door, and the curtain swung. "'But the bed, still warm!
He was certainly, as well as Bonnoeil, Mme. de Combray's eldest son, one of the three guests with whom Moisson took supper on the evening of his arrival. The one who was always playing cards or tric-trac with the Marquise, and whom she called her lawyer, might well have been d'Aché himself.
Sometimes in the afternoon my mother went to visit Mme. de Combray, and always found her playing at cards or tric-trac with friends staying at the château or passing through, but oftenest with a stout man, her lawyer. No existence could be more commonplace or peaceful.
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