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This violin was, some time later, the means by which he was cured of gambling, for having been reduced to extreme poverty, he was tempted to sell it. The price offered was a large one. At this juncture he won one hundred and sixty francs, which saved the violin, but the mental agony he endured through the affair convinced him that a gamester is an object of contempt to all well regulated minds.
I have little cause to love Kâramaneh" his voice quivered furiously "but she can yet be of use to me, and I would not harm a hair of her beautiful head except in the event of your obstinacy. Shall we then determine your immediate future upon the turn of a card, as the gamester within me, within every one of my race, suggests? "Yes, yes!" came hoarsely.
Far more intense than the passion of the gamester was the frantic yet sublime desire that mastered the breast of Glyndon. He would be the rival of Zicci, not in human and perishable affections, but in preternatural and eternal lore.
Some Adventures at Trieste I Am of Service to the Venetian Government My Expedition to Gorice and My Return to Trieste I Find Irene as an Actress and Expert Gamester Some of the ladies of Trieste thought they would like to act a French play, and I was made stage manager. I had not only to choose the pieces, but to distribute the parts, the latter being a duty of infinite irksomeness.
Nothing is more dreaded by a losing gamester, than such a threat; and the Count, in a softened tone, told the Chevalier that Mr. Matta might say what he pleased, if he did not offend him; that, as to himself, it did not give him the smallest uneasiness.
I was vexed; he, like a true gamester, took every bet I offered, and won all before him, without my getting more than six points in eight or ten games. I asked him to play a single game for one hundred pistoles; but as he saw I did not stake, he told me it was late; that he must go and look after his horses; and went away, still asking my pardon for his great freedom.
I went at once for my brother, and we lived together in furnished lodgings. A few days afterwards, having received my discharge and one hundred sequins, I threw off my uniform, and found myself once more my own master. I had to earn my living in one way or another, and I decided for the profession of gamester.
Indeed, it had been said of her that in past, present, and future there had ever been but the one picture to interest her eyes the one she was looking at now. This, however, was the remark of the uninitiated, for the true passion of a beautiful woman is never so much for her beauty as for its booty; as the passion of a gamester is for his game, not for his luck. "How beautiful she was!"
I told you he was bewitch'd. Heyday! cards and dice, out with 'em, the Divells a gamester and paies the box soundly Now, now, now. Un. Whats that? Tho. Tis something clammy, now, oh, tis sope! Cap. Sope? give a man leave to wash his mouth. Un. Does not the lyme burne his throat, Thomas? Tho.
Look you, Monsieur le Marquis, you are accounted here a reckless gamester. Will a wager induce you to this undertaking?" I leapt to my feet at that. His derision cut me like a whip. If what I did was the act of a braggart, yet it almost seems I could do no less to bolster up my former boasting or what into boasting they had translated. "You'll lay a wager, will you, Chatellerault?"
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