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“We could play bezique, or euchre if you’d rather,” he said, the blue and gold dissolving from his hands in a blur.

I had to lunch with Mrs. Van Hopper in her room, because the nurse was going out, and afterwards she would make me play bezique with all the tireless energy of the convalescent.

She used this word with angry scorn, as symbol of all degeneracy; and also despised pinochle, refusing to learn it, though any one could induce her to play bezique.

Lady Bligh and Sir James were deep in their game of bezique.

“Double bezique!” shouted Mark; “and all the money’s mine!”