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The various intrinsic interest of these Rules is much enhanced by the curious story of their migration from an old Jesuit College in France to the copy-book of George Washington. In Backer's Jesuit Bibliography it is related that the "pensionnaires" of the College of La Flèche sent to those of the College at Pont-
Britt went early, but not early enough to catch Vona before she left for the rehearsal. Although it had been particularly easy to get Mr. Britt to come to the house, Mr. Harnden was not finding it easy to hold his prospective backer's attention. The patent project under consideration was what the inventor called "a duplex door," designed to keep kitchen odors from dining rooms. Mr.
His eyes set deep beneath brows bristling like a wire-haired terrier's were on the boy in the farther corner, who sat on his backer's knee, shoeless, stripped to the buff, with an angry red mark on the right breast below the collar-bone; a slight boy and a trifle undersized, but lithe, clear-skinned, and in the pink of condition; a handsome boy, too.
He voiced that dread of wasting his backer's money when he had none of his own to put with it, meeting dollar for dollar as it was thrown into the crucibles of fate. He stopped at last, a little ashamed of having so completely unbosomed himself, for he was by habit and nature reticent. "You have made it a great deal easier for me," she said, with an assumption of gayety.
So you see Lauzanne is a bad betting proposition." After Langdon had left Crane's thoughts dwelt on the subject they had just discussed. "From a backer's point of view Lauzanne is certainly bad business," he mused; "but the public will reason just as Langdon does. And what's bad for the backers is good for the layers; I must see Faust."
There appeared nothing for it but to withdraw the stake and sneak off with only half of his backer's loss of the afternoon retrieved. He was reaching out his hand to pull the money away, when the little fellow with whiskers caught his arm. Slavens thought he read a signal in the touch, and turned as if to consult his roll again.
We have already seen, from Backer's Jesuit bibliography, that Father Léonard Périn added a chapter on "bienséance" at table; but after this there is another chapter a wonderful chapter and it would be interesting to learn whether we owe this also to Périn.
I had simply got my check cashed every week in a cigar-store next door that was known to be a policy-shop for the special accommodation of Police Headquarters in those days, and the check had gone straight into the "backer's" bank-account. That was how. But, as I said, it was hopeless to try to explain, and I didn't.
Nay, then, I your parson do take him up. Go to, I'll find thee a parishioner shall drink more at a draught than thou." A bet was made; Gerard whistled; in clattered Jack for he was taught to come into a room with the utmost composure and put his nose into his backer's hand. "A pair of buckets!" shouted Gerard, "and let us see which of these two sons of asses can drink most at a draught."
It matters little what the backer's capital may be at starting, he will lose it all if he is idiot enough to go on to the end, for he is fighting against unscrupulous legions. One well-known bookmaker coolly announced in 1888 that he had written off three hundred thousand pounds of bad debts.
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