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Indeed , I hardly know the game . '' `` It is a fashionable and necessary accomplishment . I must make you master of it , and our mornings shall be dedicated to the work . '' `` Agreed , '' replied I , and from that day , every morning after breakfast till four o'clock , the major and I were shut up , playing two dummies under his instruction . Adept as he was , I very soon learnt all the finesse and beauty of the game . `` You will do now , Newland , '' said the major one morning , tossing the cards away . `` Recollect , if you are asked to play , and I have agreed , do not refuse ; but we must always play against each other . ''