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When I left him, he made use of 'Odsbodikins! Oh me! and Never stir alive! and so forth; which gave me hopes of his recovery. So I went to the next I told you of, the gamester. When we first take our place about a man, the receptacles of the pericranium are immediately searched.
I didn't know you were so hard up." He whispered an address in the victorious druggist's ear. The half-crazed gamester felt that he had gone too far, and in half an hour he departed richer by a cheque for five thousand dollars. But his mind was far away on Manhattan Beach, with the wandering lovers, as he told Lilienthal that he should not call again. "I'll jump on the first steamer I can catch!
"Naw, he ain't," voiced another. "He's got two fruit-cans full of dust. I saw 'em.... He's just lay down like a poisoned coyote." "Shore I'm glad Cleve's got the luck, fer mebbe he'll give my gold back," spoke up another gamester, with a laugh. "Wal, he certainlee is the chilvalus card sharp," rejoined the last player. "Jim, was you allus as lucky in love as in cards?"
The collection was enlarged by addition under separate title-page of "A Cater-Character, thrown out of a box by an Experienced Gamester"-which gave Characters of an Apparitor, a Painter, a Pedlar, and a Piper. The author added also some lines "upon the Birthday of his sonne Iohn," beginning "God blesse thee, Iohn, And make thee such an one That I may joy In calling thee my son.
She was the ornament of all diversions, the life and soul of all pleasure, and at balls ravished everybody by the justness and perfection of her dancing. She could be amused by playing for small sums but liked high gambling better, and was an excellent, good-tempered, and bold gamester. She spared nothing, not even her health, to gain Madame de Maintenon, and through her the King.
And it is for that reason that gambling is regarded as a fault. Let us, therefore, O king, begin the play. Fear not. Let the stakes be fixed. Delay not! "Yudhishthira said, 'That best of Munis, Devala, the son of Asita, who always instructeth us about all those acts that may lead to heaven, hell, or the other regions, hath said, that it is sinful to play deceitfully with a gamester.
"Yes." "The guides have all your money?" "Yes." "Then I stake everything on a single throw " "A professional," interjected Doctor Lanning. "Only desperate gamesters stake all on a single throw," said Gertrude warningly. "I am a desperate gamester," said Glover, "and now for it. Have you seen the Devil's Gap?" A chorus of derision answered. "The very first day the very first trip!" cried Mrs.
The adventurer who, in the walks of merchandise, trades beyond his means is often actuated by a passion as intense, and we fear too, as criminal, as is the gamester, who in the haunts of fashionable dissipation, stakes beyond his fortune.
Ay, but you may over-act your part, and spoil all But, Sir, I hope you'll use a Christian Conscience in this business. Gay. Oh, doubt not, Sir, but I shall do you Reason. Sir Cau. Ay, Sir, but Gay. Good Sir, no more Cautions; you, unlike a fair Gamester, will rook me out of half my Night I am impatient Sir Cau. Good Lord, are you so hasty? if I please, you shan't go at all. Gay.
I was a gamester from the start the artist is always so when he is greatest, like nature herself. And once, years after, I played with a mother for her child and mine. And yet once again at Parma with" here he paused, throwing that sharp sidelong glance "with the greatest gamester, for the infinite secret of Art: and I won it; but I paid the price! . . . I should like to play now."