Part 5 — CHAPTER V. THE CARTE A L'ŒIL, OR GLANCE.
Reading edition
In playing, it is sometimes necessary for the Greek to obtain a sight of some particular card in the pack.
In order to do this, he resorts to the following manœuvre:—
One of his little fingers is slipped into the pack, where the card he wishes to see, lies; quick as lightning he glances his eye across it, and with such rapidity is the action performed, that those playing with him cannot see it, particularly as the backs of the cards are turned towards them, and he is gesticulating with his other hand, to draw off their attention.