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Newcomers, who still had money and cards, gambled as long as their means lasted. Those who had books read them until the leaves fell apart. Those who had paper and pen and ink tried to write descriptions and keep journals, but this was usually given up after being in prison a few weeks. I was fortunate enough to know a boy who had brought a copy of "Gray's Anatomy" into prison with him.
With the money thus obtained they gambled desperately. One Indian, who boasted of the terrible name of "Cross-Eye," brought in two ponies to sell. One of them was an exceptionally ancient-looking animal, which had long since outlived its usefulness, and which, under ordinary local conditions, could certainly have been purchased for $4.00 or $5.00. A friendly Indian met Mr.
"And last week," he cut her short, "in a single sitting, she gambled away thirty thousand of Jack Dorsey's dust, Dorsey, with two mortgages already on his dump! They found him in the snow next morning, with one chamber empty in his revolver." Frona made no reply, but, walking over to the candle, deliberately thrust her finger into the flame.
There'll be sore-heads, an' they'll remember there's a gal in the after-cabin, which won't be the after-cabin enny more, for they'll all have the run of it, bein' equal; then all hell's goin' to break loose, far's that gal's concerned. "A bunch of men who've bin at sea for weeks, half drunk, crazy over havin' more gold than they ever dreamed of, or havin' gambled it away.
Wherever you look on earth to-day or in the past you find human beings gambling, and you will find the gambling instinct stronger than any other stronger than the love of drink, infinitely stronger than the love of normal, honest gain. Christopher Columbus's sailors gambled on the way over, and the Indians on this side were gambling while waiting to be discovered.
He was observed to have an amount of money unusual with him soon after, and, what was still more suspicious, after having gambled this away, he had sold to a goldsmith at Southampton a ruby ring, which both Mr. and Mrs. Oakshott could swear to have belonged to the deceased. In fact, when Mr.
He had gambled, played cards, lost, then fallen back on the resource of the ill-judged and independent-minded gone to the professional lenders. Mr Clay was not the sort of man who would ever become a sponge, a nuisance to friends. He was far too proud, and though he had often helped other people, he had never yet asked for help. Mr Clay had a great horror of a smash.
I met this woman in Marseilles." "Well?" "She called herself the Countess de Matignon, and I was a young lieutenant and I couldn't resist her. Nobody could. She wanted money and I gave her all I had; then I gambled to get more.
I gambled with the Pink 'uns and swore as fashionably as I knew how! I scorched my tongue with cigarettes; I sat in Bunny Gray's room with the door bolted and let him teach me how to make silver fizzes and Chinese juleps out of Rose wine and saki! I let Jack Dysart retain my hand and try to kiss me several times " "Geraldine!" "I did. I wanted to be horrid."
I had a little once; I wanted to make it more, so gambled and lost. I laid low for a couple of years, and saw none of my old acquaintances; but it was no use, there was nothing I could turn my hand to. This profession, as you call it, led me back into my old set again. It is true that many of the houses I frequented before my disaster overtook me, do not hire guests.
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