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When Piers did eventually read the letter, he smiled at this point, a smile that was not altogether good to see. He was just going out to the Casino with Crowther. The latter had gone to fetch a coat, and he had occupied the few moments of waiting with Ina's letter. He was still smiling over the open page when Crowther joined him; but he folded the letter at once, and they went out together.

Every morning at eleven o'clock, he would come down to the Place, followed by a brindled German boarhound, walk once or twice round it, and seat himself on a bench facing the casino. There he would remain in the sun, with his straw hat tilted forward, his thin legs apart, his brown hands crossed between them, and the dog's nose resting on his knee.

In this interval of one hundred and fifty years this warrior city, this mistress of the Mediterranean, this queen of commerce and of industry became a casino for masqueraders and a den of courtezans.

The adventure ended with a laugh. The day after the discovery and exploration of Narragansett, Mr. King spent the morning with his cousin at the Casino. It was so pleasant that he wondered he had not gone there oftener, and that so few people frequented it.

She's always there, and she's so awfully pretty and dresses so so richly, and wins such a lot that everybody stares and talks. She's the sensation of the place." "But I never do go into the Casino, of course that is, not into the Rooms. I go to the Thursday Classical Concerts, and even that St. George shakes his head over, as it's inside the fatal door.

With the exception of the docks and the casino there is nothing of interest, and even the casino, like all the casinos in France, had been converted into a hospital. After two days of killing time, our orders came through to leave for the front, two of us to go by motor and the rest by train.

Murray, the English Ambassador Sale of the Casino and End of Our Meetings Serious Illness of M. M. Zorzi and Condulmer Tonnie

It seemed all very natural in such extreme states. He would do better later on. When Carrie renewed her search, as she did the next day, going to the Casino, she found that in the opera chorus, as in other fields, employment is difficult to secure. Girls who can stand in a line and look pretty are as numerous as labourers who can swing a pick.

Her eldest son, christened Washington by his parents in a moment of patriotism, which he never ceased to regret, was a fair-haired, rather good-looking young man, who had qualified himself for American diplomacy by leading the German at the Newport Casino for three successive seasons, and even in London was well known as an excellent dancer. Gardenias and the peerage were his only weaknesses.

I have a nurse here who has been twelve months in the operating theatre. She ought to have a V.C.! It's worth it." And here is a dark-eyed young officer who had come from a distant colony to fight for England. I find him in an officer's hospital, established not long after the war broke out, in a former Casino, where the huge baccarat-room has been turned into two large and splendid wards.