"Still, don't ruin yourself!" said Dolokhov with a side glance at Rostov as he continued to deal.

An hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested in their own play.

The whole interest was concentrated on Rostov.

Instead of sixteen hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand.

In reality it already exceeded twenty thousand rubles.