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I think we will all agree that an investigation should be undertaken, and if there has been injustice done, such reparation as is possible shall be made. Then they came and closed the door and I lit out for here. You've got a fine champion, Kendall Major, and we'll all see you through if it comes to a public demonstration, you can gamble on that!" Elinor's face was perplexed.
I don't want to brag none, Nellie, but I'll gamble four for one, an' go as far as you likes, that if you was to up an' show me a ghost right now, I wouldn't stop runnin' for a month. But what appals me partic'lar, goes on Dan, 'about Peets an' Enright, is they takes their guns. Now a ghost waxes onusual indignant if you takes to shootin' him up with guns.
However, James Ollerenshaw had no intention of striking his flag. "Mathematics!" he murmured. "I lay you can't tell me the interest on eighty-nine pounds for six months at four and a half per cent." Consols happened to be at eighty-nine that day. Her lips curled. "I'm really quite surprised you should encourage me to gamble," said she. "But I'll bet you a shilling I can.
Smilin' Lou did once an' you notice to-night he left the kegs be. So they get a good grade of whisky from the liquor houses. And they pass up the best, imported stuff that can be got to-day. We'll have regular customers for that; and you can gamble they'll pay the price!" He laughed at some secret joke which he straightway shared with Casey.
Possibly if she could be weaned away from her eccentric Relations and governed with a Firm Hand she would turn out O. K.. Still, it was a tall Gamble. Under the Circumstances, he didn't see that there was anything for Ferdinand to do except mop up a few Drinks and hope for the Best.
"Oh, what's the use?" she went on in a stifled tone. "Why couldn't you have let me live on, steeped in my folly? It's too late for me to change. I can't. I'm pledged. If I gamble, keep late hours, and do all the things that this set does it's because if I didn't I should die of thinking. What does it matter to any one but me?" She stopped and rose with a sudden gesture of anger.
With his scanty wardrobe in a bundle, which he slung over his shoulder by a stick, and a mere pittance in his purse, he set out from Waldorf, on foot, for the Rhine. "Soon after I left the village," said he, in after-life, "I sat down beneath a tree to rest, and there I made three resolutions: to be honest, to be industrious, and not to gamble."
The Captain looked at the handsome stripling for a few seconds in silent surprise. "You don't mean to tell me," he said slowly, "that you gamble?" "Indeed I do," replied Lewis, with a bland smile, and something of a twinkle in his eye. "For money?" asked the Captain. "For money," assented the youth; "what have you to say against it?" "Why, I've to say that it's mean."
The worst of it is that you never can tell exactly what sort of cards you are holding yourself. What's trumps? that is the question. See? Any man will gamble if only he's given a chance, for anything or everything. You too " "I haven't touched a card now for twenty years," said Schomberg in an austere tone.
As it was the time of the assizes, some fifty or sixty individuals had come from different quarters, either to witness the proceedings, or to swap their horses, their saddles, their bowie knife, or anything; for it is while law is exercising its functions that a Texian is most anxious to swap, to cheat, to gamble, and to pick pockets and quarrel under its nose, just to shew his independence of all law.
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