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Some of those worthy Snobs are making-believe to go yachting, and, dressed in telescopes and pea-jackets, are passing their time between Cherbourg and Cowes; some living higgledy-piggledy in dismal little huts in Scotland, provisioned with canisters of portable soup, and fricandeaux hermetically sealed in tin, are passing their days slaughtering grouse upon the moors; some are dozing and bathing away the effects of the season at Kissingen, or watching the ingenious game of TRENTE ET QUARANTE at Homburg and Ems.
It all came from his obstinacy in believing that the croupiers at trente et quarante were signalling to him whether it was going to be inverse or couleur, when they were really only licking their thumbs to deal the cards better! I say, if you must have a fetish, have a reasonable one, like playing for neighbours of zero at roulette.
Not school, as I at first had imagined. The mother was gone, who had given them the heaps of pretty books, and the pretty studs in the shirts, and the pretty silken clothes, and the tender tender cares; and they were handed to this scowling practitioner of Trente et Quarante. Ah! this is worse than school. Poor little men! poor mother sitting by the vacant little beds!
That very evening the resolute old gentlemen, leaning on his nephew's arm, made his appearance in the halls of the Kursaal, and lost or won a napoleon or two at the table of Trente et quarante. He did not play to lose, he said, or to win, but he did as other folks did, and betted his napoleon and took his luck as it came.
"My attention is called to the opposite side of the room: 'Here, gentlemen, is a likely little orphan yellow girl, six years old what is bid? combien? thirty-five dollars, trente cinq, fifty dollars, cinquante dollars, thank you. Finally, she is knocked down at seventy-five dollars. "Why, there is a whole family on that other stand; let us see them.
After that well, the old Highland soothsayer, who dreamed for me, always told me to forswear play after I was forty, and never to go too near running water. Of the latter I was born with a horror. For play, I was born with a gift. Thus I foresee that this little feat which you mention is sure to be mine this very night. You all say that trente has not come up for many months.
I did not take up her retort. "And what was the end of the romance?" I asked. "He borrowed twenty francs of me to pay for the dejeuner, and his l'annee trente delicacy of soul compelled him to blot my existence forever from his mind." "He never repaid you?" I asked. "For a humouristic philosopher," cried Judith, "you are delicious!" Judith is too fond of that word "delicious."
"Most interesting!" exclaimed Mademoiselle Herzog. "Pshaw!" said Savinien with ironical indifference, "it takes the place of 'trente et quarante, and is better than 'odd or even' on the numbers of the cabs which pass." "And what do the pigeons say to that?" asked Pierre, seriously. "They are not consulted," said Serge, gayly. "Then there are races and regattas," continued Savinien.
He had seen plenty of life in his own country, in the nine years since he was twenty, and he knew all about roulette and trente et quarante, among other things desirable and undesirable. Still, gambling seemed to be made particularly fascinating here, and he wanted to be fascinated, wanted it badly.
I then perceived that I had permitted my winnings to accumulate upon the board, and that in the very deal then commencing, I had a stake of nearly five hundred pounds upon the deal. "Faites votre jeu, le jeu est fait," said the croupier, "trente deux." "You have lost, by Jove," said Guy, in a low whisper, in which I could detect some trait of agitation. "Trente et une," added the croupier.
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