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Excerpt from A Defence of Cosmetics
See them, those silent exquisites round the long table at Brook's, masked, all of them, lest the countenance should betray feeling, in quinze masks, through whose eyelets they sat peeping, peeping, while macao brought them riches or ruin! We can see them, those silent rascals, sitting there with their cards and their rouleaux and their wooden money bowls, long after the dawn had crept up St. James's and pressed its haggard face against the window of the little club. Yes, we can raise their ghosts - and, more, we can see manywhere a devotion to hazard fully as meek as theirs. In England there has been a wonderful revival of cards. Baccarat may rival dead faro in the tale of her devotees. We have all seen the sweet English Chatelaine at her roulette wheel, and ere long it may be that tender parents will be writing to com plain of the compulsory baccarat in our public schools.
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