Seven of Hearts

While scanning some things in my sketch book, I came across an older sketch from September. One of the first sketches in this semester's sketch book, a scene from Maurice LeBlanc's Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin.

“You were lucky, my friend, very lucky. I fired at your hand and struck only the revolver.”
Both of them looked at him, surprised. Then he turned to the banker, and said:
“I beg your pardon, monsieur, for meddling in your business; but, really, you play a very poor game. Let me hold the cards.”
Turning again to Varin, Daspry said:
“It’s between us two, comrade, and play fair, if you please. Hearts are trumps, and I play the seven.”
-VI. The Seven of Hearts

That's downright sassy.

[Editor's Note: Maurice LeBlanc was a French author and contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Writing in the same genre, these men are often compared to each other. "Arsene Lupin, gentleman burglar" is often seen as the French answer to Sherlock Holmes, and LeBlanc, himself, had written Holmes into several of his tales of Lupin.]

At the right there is a detail of a rather unsuccessful painting/sketch of another scene from the same story. Arsene tells the narrator the secret of the Seven of Hearts: (narrator pictured)

“Parbleu!”
“Of course, parbleu! But a person has to think of those things.”

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
- IV. The Seven of Hearts
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