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Will you say done?" and Harry Racer, of the Fusiliers, here produced his book in hopes of entering a bet. "Not quite so fast Racer, my boy. There is no mystery in the matter, no subject for a wager. We have met before, I knew it while talking to her, but could not remember where. I recollect all now. Whether she recognized me or not, I cannot tell. She is a very clever woman.
I can see that you haven't changed much, unless it is that your hair is a little paler at the temples. Gray? I'll wager I've a few myself." There was a flippancy in his tone that astonished Warrington's own ears, for certainly this light mockery did not come from within. At heart he was sober enough.
"Oh, by the way, Thora! haven't you seen a girl?" he jumped up on the embankment. "Yes, there she is, she is my cousin, I can't introduce you to her, but come along, let us follow her; we made a wager, now you can he the judge.
I have always noticed that the men who accumulate great libraries do not know much, and the men who know a great deal have very few books. Now I will wager that you have not a thousand volumes in your house, Mr. Ambrose." "Five hundred would be nearer the mark," said the vicar. "The fewer one has the nearer one approaches to Aquinas's homo unius libri," returned the squire.
"What satisfaction will it afford you to witness her sufferings to see the frightful ravages made upon her charms by this remorseless disease, to throw her whole family into consternation, and destroy the little chance she may have of recovery, by your presence? What good will this do? No, you must pay your wager to Sedley, and forget her." "I cannot forget her," replied Wyvil.
On entering the kitchen, Peety and his little girl found thirteen or fourteen, in family laborers and servants of both sexes, seated at a long deal table, each with a large wooden noggin of buttermilk and a spoon of suitable dimensions, digging as if for a wager into one or other of two immense wooden bowls of stirabout, so thick and firm in consistency that, as the phrase goes, a man might dance on it.
With a drunken leer he informed us that champagne was plentiful on their side and that it did not cost them anything either. About seven that night the conversation had turned to the "contemptible" English, and the Captain had made a wager that he would hang his cap on the English barbed wire to show his contempt for the English sentries. The wager was accepted.
'Why, sir, I have grown here like an old oak-tree; the Devil himself could hardly root me up: and for all I perceive you are a very entertaining old gentleman, I would wager you another bottle you lose your pains with me. The dimness of Will's eyesight had been increasing all this while; but he was somehow conscious of a sharp and chilling scrutiny which irritated and yet overmastered him.
"What's passing through Old Jack's head?" asked Langdon, the irreverent and the cheerful. "I don't know, and I don't suppose anybody will ever know all that's passing there." "I'll wager my year's pay against a last year's bird nest that he isn't leading us away from the enemy." "He certainly isn't doing that.
It was decided that Frank had better make the trip in the boat to the foot of the cliff, as he knew the stream better than the other three. "There, I guess that will do," observed Ned, as he daubed a bit of pine gum on a small crack. "I'll wager it doesn't leak a drop. The paddle is better than when you first made the trip, Frank." "I'm glad of it. It was so rough before it blistered my hands."
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