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Updated: May 7, 2025
Precisely ten minutes later Colonel Grand got up from his chair. In three strides he was at the door; he turned the key and There was Dick Cronk leaning against the wall on the opposite side of the hallway, his hands in his pockets, his long legs crossed, his "dicer" on the back of his head.
La mia Accademia un tempo, o mia Ginnasia, E stata volentier ne' miei boschetti; E puossi ben veder l' Affrica e l' Asia: Vengon le Ninfe con lor canestretti, E portanmi o narciso o colocasia; E così fuggo mille urban dispetti: Sì ch' io non torno a' vostri Areopaghi, Gente pur sempre di mal dicer vaghi.
"Ah, my son, did I not bid thee not to trust too much to thyself? and now my words have been verified by thy own experience, as it was perhaps well they should be." "Well! that I should become a drunkard, dicer, and brawler." "Well that thou shouldst so early hate drinking, dicing, and brawling.
"And don't steal, for if you do once you will steal again, and by and by you'll get bolder and do worse. I've heard men tell how they had begun by lifting a dicer in front of a clothing store, or stealing a loaf of bread, and ended by committing murder. They can't break this way always brace up." The switchman went over to the bar where a couple of non-union men were shaking dice for the drinks.
He waited until the cloud sank, then he said, "Do you know but you cannot know what it is to be sent from pillar to post and wait in antechambers where the air stifles, and doff cap who have been captain of ships! to chamberlain, page and lackey? To be called dreamer, adventurer, dicer! To hear the laugh and catch the sneer!
Each throw doth make the dicer fear, but even midst his feasting and his pleasure a magistrate should be intent on intervening business; and he hath this place appointed, as the most convenient for him to receive any message, answer it, or sign a bill; for there the second bed joining with the third, the turning at the corner leaves a vacant space, so that a notary, servant, guard, or a messenger from the army might approach, deliver the message, and receive orders; and the consul, having room enough to speak or use his hand, neither troubles any one, nor is hindered by any the guests.
"Well, I'm accountable for dealing with that wicked old dicer I thought I saw isn't that it? But I must pay old Trebeck all the same, since the money was his. Can you manage a meeting?" "Look down here. Old Trebeck has just landed; he will sleep to-night at the George and Dragon, to meet his cattle in the morning at Golden Friars fair. You can speak to him yourself."
And when this hold-up comes off I beat it till that Cuban rummy with the medals on his dicer rides a live horse up my back." "You don't appreciate the honor," explained his employer; then turning to the others, he announced: "Will you allow me to introduce Mr. Lawrence Glass? He isn't really a valet, you know, Miss Chapin, and he doesn't care for the West yet. It is his first trip."
He swore he didn't, but I think he lied. But jest before they left the house, I happened to look inside of the old boy's hat he had a stiff dicer. There was a big gilt letter in the top of it." "What was that letter?" demanded Bonner eagerly. "It was a B." Bonner looked at Anderson as if the floor were being drawn from under his feet.
Why, I could well thrash half-a-dozen of them in a fair stand-up fight." At this moment a loud peal of laughter greeted the second dicer. "Ace two." "My chance is worthless," said the man. "Worthless!" muttered Pike to himself. "Aye, you are indeed worthless, compared with some of the English villains I have hunted down and fought for life or death.
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