Zibeline - Volume 1

right sat Heloise Virot, the "first old woman," or duenna, of the same theatre, whose well known jests and eccentricities added their own piquancy to gay life in Paris. The two artists, being co

ting-room, at a time when betting had not yet become a practice of the masses; and most of them

ambitious and calculating. He cherished, under a quiet demeanor, a strong hope of being able to supply, by the rapid acquisition of a fortune, the deficiencies of his inferior birth, from which his secret vanity suffered severely. Being an expert in all games of chance, he had already accumul

tered the salon, holding out before him with both hands a large tray covered with slender glasses filled with a beverage called "the cardinal's drink,

s, instead of lifting the glass to her own lips, she presented it to those of the waiter, and, raising her arm, compelled him to swallow the contents. Encouraged by laughter and applaus

ass, and the final catastrophe would have been infallibly brought about, had not providence intervened

ey are abou

neaux, a modern Tartufe, who, though married, was seen ev

ining the large dining-room, which gave the effect o

es, particularly those of Franc-Comtois, the winner of the military steeplechase. This animal was one of

he guests had already manifested their intention to depart, when P

night in Paris, no doubt

am obliged to return to Vincennes early in the morning

?" proposed Captain Constantin Lenaieff, militar

lease," s

ansformed into a gaming-hall, with the usual accessories: a frame for the tally-sheet, a metal bowl to hold rejected playing-cards s

for their value in mother-of-pearl "chips" of different sizes, representing sums from one to five, ten, twenty-five, or a hundred louis. Paul Landry took twenty-f