Card game in Seagull

[Lila W. Zaharkov]

At 09:04 AM 03/20/2006, you wrote:
>I found the scene with the card game, it's in Act IV, and the name of
>the game is "lotto":
>
>ARKADINA. [To TRIGORIN] When the long autumn evenings descend on us we
>while away the time here by playing lotto. Look at this old set; we
>used
>it when our mother played with us as children. Don't you want to take
>a
>hand in the game with us until supper time? [She and TRIGORIN sit down
>at the table] It is a monotonous game, but it is all right when one
>gets
>used to it. [She deals three cards to each of the players.]
>
>TREPLIEFF. [Looking through the pages of the magazine] He has read his
>own story, and hasn't even cut the pages of mine.
>
>He lays the magazine on his desk and goes toward the door on the
>right,
>stopping as he passes his mother to give her a kiss.
>
>ARKADINA. Won't you play, Constantine?
>
>TREPLIEFF. No, excuse me please, I don't feel like it. I am going to
>take a turn through the rooms. [He goes out.]
>
>MASHA. Are you all ready? I shall begin: twenty-two.
>
>ARKADINA. Here it is.
>
>MASHA. Three.
>
>DORN. Right.
>
>MASHA. Have you put down three? Eight. Eighty-one. Ten.
>
>..........
>
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