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I am taking some stock in it, of course; but I have nothing to do with the organization of the company, since I have sold the ground to Mr. Gamble." "Gamble?" repeated Gresham. "Oh, is that so?" His tone was so deprecative that Courtney was sharply awakened by it. "Do you know anything against Gamble?" he quite naturally inquired. "Not a thing," Gresham hastily assured him.
There was also a last-ditch fight in the United Nations, wherein the Platform was denounced and a certain block of associated countries issued an ultimatum, threatening to bolt the international organization if the Platform went aloft. And again there had to be a grim gamble.
Digby in the middle of Oxford Street, Dick in a fustian jacket, Digby in a suit of superfine; Dick with five shillings in his pocket, Digby with L1000, and if, at the end of ten years, you looked up your two men, Dick would be on his road to a fortune, Digby what we have seen him! Yet Digby had no vice; he did not drink nor gamble. What was he, then? Helpless.
The cherub produced a dingy pack. "They're only picture cards, Miss," he said. The girl's gray eyes seemed to engulf the lad, friendly if a little stern. "Have you been gambling?" she asked. "No, Miss," with obvious truthfulness. "He's got nothin' to gamble with," jeered the brutal Stanley. "His mother takes it all."
"What are you going to do with him?" "Make him come back." "From where?" "From the native quarter and the bazaars. He was for years in Abdin Palace." "What do you want him for?" "It's a little gamble for Egypt. There's no man in Egypt Ismail loves and fears so much " "Except little Dicky Donovan!" "That's all twaddle.
Sanders, you know that gait will soon kill heavy cattle. The outfits were made up of short-card men and dance-hall ornaments, wild enough to look at, but shy on cattle sabe. Just so they showed up bad and wore a six-shooter, that was enough to win a home with Field and Radcliff. If they reach here on time, I'll gamble there ain't ten horses in the entire outfit that don't carry a nigger brand.
The faults of the nation are inordinate vanity in their appearance, causing them to impoverish themselves for the sake of gorgeous clothes, and gambling. They gamble to an excessive degree, heaping debt after debt upon their heads. Both these vices have caused an active legislation.
I had none of the black fright which I had suffered before my meeting with Grey. Happily, though a young man's thoughts may be long, his fancy takes short views. I was far more concerned with what might happen in my absence in the Tidewater than with our fate in the hills. "It is a gamble," I said, "but the stakes are noble, and I have a private pride in its success."
"I say I think he was a very good man," repeated Giovanni, maintaining his point with an air of conviction. "If that is your conception of goodness, it is no wonder that you have not attained to sanctity," said the old man, with a sneer. "It pleases you to be witty," answered his son. "Astrardente did not gamble; he had no vices of late. He was kind to his wife." "No vices no.
But she positively and ungratefully didn't want to marry Henry and listen to his hawking and his grumbling for the rest of her life. Sooner or later one of The Boys might propose. But in a small town it was all a gamble. There weren't so very many desirable young men most of the energetic ones went off to Philadelphia and New York.
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