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Wild then changed his countenance into a kind of derision, and spoke as follows: "Suppose it should be possible that Mr. Another advantage you may promise yourself is the being blown up at every gaming-house in town, for that I will assure you of; and then much good may it do you to sit down with the satisfaction of having discharged what it seems you owe the public.
Again the door opened the cautious six inches, and Jim's face was not pleasant to look on as he swore at the disturber. "Tha'ss allri', ol' sport," hiccoughed Foyle. "I want to come in. A Bill Reid tol' me if I wanted hic game I was to come here. You know ol' Bill Reid" this almost pleadingly "he'll tell you I'm allri', eh?" The door-keeper of the gaming-house holds an onerous responsibility.
They met at some gaming-house; and, if some old pocket-book of the Count Barrare's were shaken, there might fall from it a card, with the name of Mr. Marmaduke Bannerworth upon it." "Is there nothing further in the pocket-book no memoranda?" "I will look. Stay! here is something upon one of the leaves let me see 'Mem., twenty-five thousand pounds!
"Burke and I had both been neatly sand-bagged, my dear Petrie, and removed elsewhere, some hours before Weymouth raided the gaming-house. Oh! I don't know how they smuggled us away with the police watching the place; but my presence here is sufficient evidence of the fact. Are you armed?" "No; my pistol was in my raincoat, which is missing."
"Blindly." "Have you ever been to a gaming-house?" she asked in a tremulous voice. "Never." "Ah! now I can breathe. You will have luck. Here is my purse," she said. "Take it! there are a hundred francs in it, all that such a fortunate woman as I can call her own. Go up into one of the gaming-houses I do not know where they are, but there are some near the Palais-Royal.
I made myself acquainted with the individual interests and exact circumstances of all whom it was our object to intimidate or to gain. It was I who brought to the House the younger and idler members, whom no more nominally powerful agent could allure from the ball-room or the gaming-house.
I was walking at the time with M. de Saintonge, and he muttered, with a sneer, that it was not difficult to see the end, or that within the year the young braggart would sink to be a gaming-house bully. I said nothing, but I confess that I thought otherwise; the lad's disposition of his money and his provision for the future seeming to me so remarkable as to set him above ordinary rules.
In rising from that bed of sickness, it was with a solemn vow never again to enter a gaming-house, and never again to touch the bewildering poison that had been the secondary, if not, indeed, the primary cause of two years' folly nay, madness. And Constance, what of her, all that time? the reader asks.
Sir Reginald Eversleigh played his cards very cautiously. It was only after he had instilled a taste for gambling into his kinsman's breast that he ventured to introduce him to the fashionable gaming-house presided over by Paulina Durski. The introduction had a sinister effect upon his destiny.
We sat till the midnight hour had passed, without arriving at a definite conclusion; we saw no plan of practicable operation, and so we wandered onwards to one of those deep dens of iniquity, a gaming-house, wherein we had won and lost thousands.
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