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'I wunna. 'You must. If you don't, I'll tell the parson you stopped the night at Undern. Surely you know that he wouldn't marry you then? He was bluffing. He knew Vessons would tell Marston the truth if he spoke. But it served his turn. 'You wouldna! she pleaded. He laughed. 'A'right, then, she said, 'if you wunna tell 'un. 'Will he stay for the dancing? 'No. I mun go along of him.
'It's awfully gambly, isn't it? Do teach us. In a quarter of an hour Milly was bluffing her father with success. She said that in future she should never want to play at any other game. As for Leonora, though she lost and gained counters with happy equanimity, she did not like the game; it frightened her.
"And now for the Lady of Peacock Alley!" Peacock Alley was in full gorgeousness when Harleston, just at five o'clock, paused on the landing above the marble stairs inside the F Street entrance and surveyed the motley throng busy with looking and being looked at, with charming and being charmed, with wondering and being wondered at, with aping and being aped, with patronizing and being patronized, with flattering and being flattered, with fawning and being fawned upon, with deceiving and being deceived, with bluffing and being bluffed, with splurging, with pretending, with every trick and artifice and sham and chicanery that society and politics know, or can fancy.
"Sure!" "And worth while, John?" He laughed. "Believe me! It's the worthwhilest thing under the sun to sit in the Game, with a sport's interest in the hands dealt out, taking yours as it comes to you, bluffing all you can when you've got to, playing your cards for all they're worth when it's your turn. No reneging. No squealing when you lose. No boasting how you did it when you win.
Cameron and I began "bluffing" the game I recall that the limit was five dollars that is, raising and back-raising each other, and whoever else happened to be in, without much or any regard to the cards we held. It chanced on a deal that I picked up a pat flush, Mr. Cleveland a pat full.
I exposed my hand and said, "That is too good a pot to lose, so I will raise you gentlemen $150." Our friend put up, and my partner said, "I believe you are both bluffing; I see that and raise you $100." I did not want to drive our friend out, so I raised $100. He put up, and we came to a draw. They both took two cards, and I stood pat with a nine-spot high.
In reality they were merely bluffing, knowing all the while, with sinking hearts, that their position was hopeless, and that their strategy had no effect whatever on the actions of their persecutor.
"Bluffing!" The Coloradoan swelled. "Bluffing! I tell you there was murder in the fellow's eye. He had come there primed for a killing. If Beaudry had weakened by a hair's breadth, that forty-four would have pumped lead into his brain. Ask the train crew. Ask the station agent. Ask any one who was there." "Maybeso," assented Dave dubiously.
You'll save money and sleep." "Straight flush the best hand." "All ties go to the sweaters." "A man and his money are soon parted!" "You play the first hand for fun, and all the rest of the night to get even!" Thus, and more also, the Five in hilarious chorus. "Any man caught bluffing loses the pot," added the Eminent Person, gravely admonitory.
He had to do it, to 'get through. If he hadn't done it, he'd never have 'got through. Anyhow, whether that's so or not, everyone's got to make a fight to break into the part of the world where living's really worth living. But I needn't tell YOU that. You're doing it." "No, I'm not," replied Mildred. "I'm ashamed to say so, but I'm not. I've been bluffing and wasting time."
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