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They strolled about the Rooms for a while, and finally spent an amusing half-hour watching the "trente-et-quarante" players. But all the time Lily was asking herself what there could have been in the letter which Captain Stuart had written to her, and which had not yet reached her? As for the loss of her money, she really did manage to forget it.
Angus Stuart put a pink counter, that is, twenty francs, on the board three separate times, and each time he lost.