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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Well, I haven't mistook any of you for fools, neither. But I think that proverb, or whatever you call it, is as much's to say just like this, that if a man ain't a fool, 'tain't easy to part him from his money!" "How about a fool and his land?" asked John, with a genial countenance. "O you're all right," eagerly replied Gamble, and smiled inquiringly as the company roared with laughter.
The fact that Rennie’s plan seemed a gamble did not make it any easier to follow. But the Kentuckian could think of nothing better to offer. The moon was rising as they came to the water hole near the mustangers’ camp. Men and animals drank together, and when Drew dismounted his weariness hit—hard. Fatigue was a gray cloud in his brain, a weight on arms, legs, body.
I brings him down all cautious where we can look across the valley, an' you-all can gamble I'm some astonished to see a gent walkin' along afoot, off mebby a couple hundred yards. He sorter limps an' leans over on one side like he's hurt. Nacherally I stops an' surveys him careful. It's plenty strange he's thar at all; an' stranger still he's afoot.
"You met her here a journalist." "Quite so, a strange career." "Mr. Harris, a clubman, is coming, and the Stanley Cheevers." "The Stanley Cheevers!" said Flanders with some surprise. "Are we going to gamble?" "You believe in that scandal about bridge?" "Certainly not," said Flanders, smiling. "You see I was present.
She has designated her room and the windows that are hers. She is lying awake up there now, take it from me, hoping that you will come to-night. Do you understand? If not to-night, to-morrow night. I shall lead you directly to her window. And then comes the only chance we take, the only instance where we gamble. There will not be a light in her window, but that won't make any difference.
He whispered in his friend's ear, "Paloma don't let me gamble, but if you've got any dinero, get it down on me." Then, addressing the bystanders, he proclaimed, "Boys, if this pilgrim is good enough to stretch me out we'll marry him off and settle him down." "No chance, Uncle Blaze; he's the most married person in town," some one volunteered.
Catalina remembered the Spanish proverb 'Subtract from a Spaniard all his good qualities, and the remainder makes a pretty fair Portuguese; but, as there was nobody else to gamble with, she entered freely into their society. Very soon she suspected that there was foul play: all modes of doctoring dice had been made familiar to her by the experience of camps.
They could not be openly steered to the find, but there were ways of directing a hunt which would do as well. Two days ago, according to schedule, their castaway had been deposited here with a sub-conscious command to remain in the general area. There had been a slight element of risk in leaving him alone, armed only with the crude weapons he could manipulate, but that was part of the gamble.
She acknowledged that she left behind her some creditors and some money at Aix-la-Chapelle; but at Mentz she did not want to borrow, nor had she time to gamble. The gallant ultra Romans provided everything, even to the utmost extent of her wishes; and she, on her part, could not but honour those with her company as much as possible, particularly as they required nothing else for their civilities.
That driving zeal, that practical vigour that once distinguished the English is continually less apparent. Our workmen take no pride in their work any longer, they shirk toil and gamble. And what is worse, the master takes no pride in the works; he, too, shirks toil and gambles.
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