Under the Red Robe

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - There were a score round us when the fool little knowing the man with whom he had to deal and as little how to lose like a gentleman flung the words in my teeth. He thought I'll be sworn that I should storm and swear and ruffle it like any common cock of the hackle. But that was never Gil de Berault's way. For a few seconds after he had spoken I did not even look at him. I passed my eye instead - smiling Bien Entendu - round the ring of waiting faces saw that there was no one except De Pombal I had cause to fear; and then at last I rose and looked at the fool with the grim face I have known impose on older and wiser men. 'Marked cards M. l'Anglais?' I said with a chilling sneer. 'They are used I am told to trap players - not unbirched schoolboys.'