When Jack entered the cardroom, that apartment was almost empty, but the suspicious-looking tables were surrounded by chairs stuck up on two legs, denoting that they were engaged, and those men who were present were all playing.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
He left the ballroom, passed rapidly through the cardroom, and, taking a hat from a nail and a cane from a corner, left the last of the rooms and descended the stairs, saying to himself: "I snap my fingers at them.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
The third act was going on, and I accordingly visited the cardroom, and there lost two hundred sequins at a single deal.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt