"He let the play run on till 'twas _seize et le va_, then _vingt-un et le va_, then twenty-five.

And, strike me! Lady Catharine, if he sat not there cool as my Lord Speaker in the Parliament, and saw the cards run to _trente et le va_, as though 'twere no more to him than the eating of an orange!" "And showed no anxiety at all ?" "None, as I tell you, and he proved to us plain that he had not two-pence to his name, for that he had been robbed the night before while on his way to town.

He staked a diamond, a stone of worth.

I must say, his like was never seen at cards." "He hath strange quality." "That you may say.

Now read me some farther riddles of this same young man.