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Show A COLD-HEARTED KING. Characteristic Remark Credited tc ' Louis XV of France. ' In 'the old Court of France, gambling gam-bling at cards was fashionable, except when" a particularly serious monarch was on the .throne..-: Louis XIV played constantly; and , there are plenty of pictures of him as he sat among the 'ladles- who: vU'erftb wed" their favors 'Upon 'him and. his courtiers, chatting at one moment and hauling in his rwinnings rat the next. There was charm .in Louis XIV even when he ' was gambling,' but his despicable s.uc-: s.uc-: cessor seems to have carried to the gamng table all the cruel and selfish coldness which characterized, him in other aspects of his life. While one evening he was playing, M. de Ch'au- ellE'-opeet-tfee-eeartter-vag ''i'c-rwlth ''i'c-rwlth a fit-of apoplexy. Some one ex-iclaimed, ex-iclaimed, "M. de Chauvelin is ill." "ill," said-j-the -kind,' coldly turning round and looking at him. "He is dead;, -take hlnr away. Spades are trumps, gentlemen." , i |