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As she spoke she consulted a little red morocco betting-book. "Lory!" she cried, after a short search. "Yes, of course it was Lory de Vasselot my cousin. And will you believe it? he saved my life the other day, all in a moment! Yes! I saw death, quite close, before my eyes. Ugh! And I, who am so wicked! You do not know what it is to be wicked and to know it, Denise you who are so young.
So had he expressed himself plaintively, endeavoring to excuse himself when on some occasion a race had been won by some outside horse which Captain Boodle had omitted to make safe in his betting-book. He was regarded by his intimate friends as a very successful man; but I think myself that his life was a mistake.
He answered with a thick accent and laboring breath uttering a word at a time: "Shall I die?" "I hope not." "Sure?" "No." He looked round him again. This time his eyes rested on the trainer. Perry came forward. "What can I do for you, Sir?" The reply came slowly as before. "My coat pocket." "This one, Sir?" "No." "This?" "Yes. The trainer felt in the pocket, and produced a betting-book.
When they had finished their wine, they sauntered into the Kildare Street Club. Blake was soon busy with his little betting-book, and Lord Ballindine followed his example. Brien Boru was, before long, in great demand. Blake took fifty to one, and then talked the horse up till he ended by giving twenty-five.
A bit of rhapsody from Miss Sarah Theresa, and poor Emma's embellished and animated countenance, were sufficient indications that they were smoothly gliding into the snare; and accustomed as Arthur was to see Mark Gardner in a very different aspect, he was astonished at his perfect performance of his part the humility and deference befitting the sense of his errors, and conversation so entirely at home in all their peculiar language and predilections, that Arthur was obliged to feel for the betting-book in his own pocket to convince himself that he was still deeply involved with this most admirable and devoted of penitents.
Here I met again constantly the great sportsman who had noticed me so kindly, and I became his follower, his disciple. I had started with him on a wave of prejudice in his favour; because that day when I read in the betting-book what he had staked against the favourite, I laid all the cash and credit I could get with his outsiders and against the favourite, and I won five hundred pounds.
He had them both; and though the blackleg might quail before the awful scrutiny of his piercing eye, there never was a man so scrupulously polite to his inferiors as Lord George Bentinck. The turf, too, was not merely the scene of the triumphs of his stud and his betting-book.
Now you clear out and let me get on with my work. Reassured by the girl's manner, Mosk began to think that Mrs Pansey's hints were all moonshine, and after cooling himself with a glass of beer, went away to look into his betting-book with some horsey pals.
There Foxleigh, too, some day must go, asking of Nature why she had murdered him. It was the hour between tea and dinner, when the spirit of the country house was resting, conscious of its virtue, half asleep. Having bathed and changed, George Pendyce took his betting-book into the smoking-room.
His voice faltered as he said the words, "The dog has found the pocketbook!" He opened the book with shaking hands. A betting-book was bound up in it, with the customary calendar. He turned to the date of the day after the robbery. There was the entry: "Felix Sweetsir. Paid 500 pounds. Moody took from his waistcoat pocket his own memorandum of the number of the lost bank-note.
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