Well, well-let the ecarte alone, at any rate."
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
So I have lost no time, but, under the auspices of your friend Trevanion, have become the fascinating figure you find me, and am now Compte O'Lieuki, a Pole of noble family, banished by the Russian government, with a father in Siberia, and all that; and I hope, by the end of the week, to be able to cheat at ecarte, and deceive the very police itself."
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Will you give me my revenge at ecarte?
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton