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1The dinner was excellent, exquisite. Ségouin, Jimmy decided, had a very refined taste. The party was increased by a
2young Englishman named Routh whom Jimmy had seen with Ségouin at Cambridge. The young men supped in a snug room lit by
3electric candle-lamps. They talked volubly and with little reserve. Jimmy, whose imagination was kindling, conceived the
4lively youth of the Frenchmen twined elegantly upon the firm framework of the Englishman's manner. A graceful image of
5his, he thought, and a just one. He admired the dexterity with which their host directed the conversation. The five
6young men had various tastes and their tongues had been loosened. Villona, with immense respect, began to discover to
7the mildly surprised Englishman the beauties of the English madrigal, deploring the loss of old instruments. Rivière,
8not wholly ingenuously, undertook to explain to Jimmy the triumph of the French mechanicians. The resonant voice of the
9Hungarian was about to prevail in ridicule of the spurious lutes of the romantic painters when Ségouin shepherded his
10party into politics. Here was congenial ground for all. Jimmy, under generous influences, felt the buried zeal of his
11father wake to life within him: he aroused the torpid Routh at last. The room grew doubly hot and Ségouin's task grew
12harder each moment: there was even danger of personal spite. The alert host at an opportunity lifted his glass to
13Humanity and, when the toast had been drunk, he threw open a window significantly. That night the city wore the mask of
14a capital. The five young men strolled along Stephen's Green in a faint cloud of aromatic smoke. They talked loudly and
15gaily and their cloaks dangled from their shoulders. The people made way for them. At the corner of Grafton Street a
16short fat man was putting two handsome ladies on a car in charge of another fat man. The car drove off and the short fat
17man caught sight of the party. "André." "It's Farley!" A torrent of talk followed. Farley was an American. No one knew
18very well what the talk was about. Villona and Rivière were the noisiest, but all the men were excited. They got up on a
19car, squeezing themselves together amid much laughter. They drove by the crowd, blended now into soft colours, to a
20music of merry bells. They took the train at Westland Row and in a few seconds, as it seemed to Jimmy, they were walking
21out of Kingstown Station. The ticket-collector saluted Jimmy; he was an old man: "Fine night, sir!" It was a serene
22summer night; the harbour lay like a darkened mirror at their feet. They proceeded towards it with linked arms, singing
23Cadet Roussel in chorus, stamping their feet at every: "Ho! Ho! Hohé, vraiment!" They got into a rowboat at the slip and
24made out for the American's yacht. There was to be supper, music, cards. Villona said with conviction: "It is
25delightful!" There was a yacht piano in the cabin. Villona played a waltz for Farley and Rivière, Farley acting as
26cavalier and Rivière as lady. Then an impromptu square dance, the men devising original figures. What merriment! Jimmy
27took his part with a will; this was seeing life, at least. Then Farley got out of breath and cried "Stop!" A man brought
28in a light supper, and the young men sat down to it for form's sake. They drank, however: it was Bohemian. They drank
29Ireland, England, France, Hungary, the United States of America. Jimmy made a speech, a long speech, Villona saying:
30"Hear! hear!" whenever there was a pause. There was a great clapping of hands when he sat down. It must have been a good
31speech. Farley clapped him on the back and laughed loudly. What jovial fellows! What good company they were! Cards!
32cards! The table was cleared. Villona returned quietly to his piano and played voluntaries for them. The other men
33played game after game, flinging themselves boldly into the adventure. They drank the health of the Queen of Hearts and
34of the Queen of Diamonds. Jimmy felt obscurely the lack of an audience: the wit was flashing. Play ran very high and
35paper began to pass. Jimmy did not know exactly who was winning but he knew that he was losing. But it was his own fault
36for he frequently mistook his cards and the other men had to calculate his I.O.U.'s for him. They were devils of fellows
37but he wished they would stop: it was getting late. Someone gave the toast of the yacht The Belle of Newport and then
38someone proposed one great game for a finish. The piano had stopped; Villona must have gone up on deck. It was a
39terrible game. They stopped just before the end of it to drink for luck. Jimmy understood that the game lay between
40Routh and Ségouin. What excitement! Jimmy was excited too; he would lose, of course. How much had he written away? The
41men rose to their feet to play the last tricks, talking and gesticulating. Routh won. The cabin shook with the young
42men's cheering and the cards were bundled together. They began then to gather in what they had won. Farley and Jimmy
43were the heaviest losers. He knew that he would regret in the morning but at present he was glad of the rest, glad of
44the dark stupor that would cover up his folly. He leaned his elbows on the table and rested his head between his hands,
45counting the beats of his temples. The cabin door opened and he saw the Hungarian standing in a shaft of grey light:
46"Daybreak, gentlemen!"
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