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Courtney," he admitted. "So I imagined," she answered icily. "Mr. Washer and Mr. Close and Colonel Bouncer are to arrive on the noon train. You'll excuse me, won't you, please?" And she hurried on to the house by herself to dress for luncheon. Johnny Gamble tried to say "Certainly", but he dropped his sailor straw hat. Constance heard it and every muscle in her body jumped and stiffened.
The coolie will work hard when hungry, and he will do his work well, but the moment he is paid off the chances are that, like his confrère on the Gulf of Naples, he will at once go and drink a good part of what he has received; then, in a state of intoxication, he will gamble the next half; and after that he will go to sleep for twenty-four hours on a stretch, and remain the next twelve squatting on the ground, basking in the sun by the side of his carrying-machine, pondering, still half asleep, on his foolishness, and seeking for fresh orders from passers-by who may require the services of a human beast of burden.
There is a little attempt at a mall, with double rows of trees, under that wall, where lovers walk, and ragged, handsome urchins play the exciting game of fives, or sit in the dirt, gambling with cards for the Sorrento currency. I do not know what sin it may be to gamble for a bit of printed paper which has the value of one sou.
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.
I never learned to play cards, to gamble, or to tolerate the company of immodest women. For the latter I had an invincible repugnance that grew stronger with my years. In the summer of 1855, while harvesting for her uncle, I first met at the dinner-table Miss Jennie Maddox, the lady whom I afterwards married. I looked as rough and unprepossessing that day as she ever saw me afterwards.
Then John told her the whole truth about Harry's position his weariness of his profession, his indifference to business, and his temptation to gamble. "The poor lad! The poor lad!" she cried. "He began all wrong. He has just been seeking his right place all these years." "Well, mother, we cannot get over the stile until we come to it. I think Harry has crossed it now.
Besides, as I never gamble myself, I can lose nothing by an acquaintance with those who do." Another pause ensued and, finding I had got all from Mr. Thornton and his uncourteous guest that I was likely to do, I took my hat and my departure. "I do not know," thought I, "whether I have profited much by this visit. Let me consider. In the first place, I have not ascertained why I was put off by Mr.
Carloads of lumber and machinery is on its way, and the stage-coach will be putting off mail there before long. That's how civilization is a-seeking out our little gal. But I means to meet it halfway." "Oh, come on, don't say anything more about it when I look at those tents I can't breathe freely. What do you gamble on a skunk, or a coyote, in the traps?"
"Well," said Joe, "I'm willing to gamble on you." Sally's low voice loosed exultation. "You're a wonder, Mr. Blaine. I'll do it! But we're both plumb crazy." "I know it," said Joe, "and I like it!" They shook hands. "Come over to-morrow and meet my mother!" He gave her the address. "Good-by," she said. "And let me tell you, I'm simply primed for woman stuff.
Her deceit deals in the lives of sons precious to fathers and mothers, the fate of frontiers, of institutions! Think of it! Think of machines costing countless millions machines of flesh and blood, with their destinies shaped by one little bit of lying information! Think of the folly of any civilization that stakes its triumphs on such a gamble! Am I not right? Isn't it true? Isn't it?"
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