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When the door opened, he walked in, and said, still standing: "You are Brandes? I am Lehmann." Without heeding the surprise he read in the young fellow's face, he went on: "I have come to ask you to give a lecture to the People's Society in the Casino's big room." As the addressee looked about to speak, he continued, drowning every objection, "I know what you are going to say.
His idea in putting on money now was merely to "pay for his place," whence he did not mean to move as long as Mary stayed. Many other men would be ready to snatch the chair the instant he abandoned it, therefore he had no right to usurp the Casino's property without payment.
And, thank goodness, you've got plenty left of what the Casino's given you, I hope, in spite of that awful Christmas night." "Oh, yes, I've got more, in Smith's Bank," said Mary. "I can draw some out to-morrow, and begin playing again. Tell Lord Dauntrey he mustn't mind as far as I'm concerned." "I did tell him you'd be sporting, and that you were a good plucked one, but I couldn't console him.
Cast your eye around the tables of a casino's gambling-room. What an uniform and abject herd, huddled together with one despondent impulse!
You recently gave some lectures on Runeberg. Will you kindly repeat one of them before the People's Society in the Casino's big room?" "Won't you sit down? I thank you for your offer. But my lecture was not good enough to be repeated before so large a gathering. I do not know enough about Runeberg's life, and my voice, moreover, will not carry.
Another is that my Casino's scheduled to be a home from home, a place you can be real cosy in. You'll look around you, and the only thing you'll miss will be mother's face. Yes, sir, there's no need for a gambling Casino to look and feel and smell like the reading-room at the British Museum. Comfort, coziness and convenience. That's the ticket I'm running on. Slip that to the old gink, Crump."