Chapter ii · 15. Il est mal-seant, dans le jeu, ou aupres du feu de faire attendre trop long-temps ceux qui viennent à s'y presenter.
Reading edition
It is impolite at play, or at the fireside, to make the new-comers wait for places too long.
(In the second clause, "affect not" &c., the Washington MS. follows Hawkins in misunderstanding a phrase of the next Maxim: "Prenez garde de vous échauffer trop au jeu, & aux emportements qui s'y eleu[~e]t,"—a warning against being overheated at play, and "carried away by its excitements.")
10th. When you Sit down, Keep your Feet firm and Even, without putting one on the other or Crossing them