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Updated: June 4, 2025
Just love it, with all its faults; fight for it, if necessary, but don't get daffy over it. In the countries you speak of, everybody gambles more or less. In this country only a small proportion gamble, and yet the element of chance is something that is very attractive to most people here at home.
"Honest, mamma, it's a shame the way you look for trouble, and the way you and papa pick on that boy." "Pick! When a boy gambles the roulette and the cards and the horses until " "When a boy likes cards and horses and roulette it isn't so nice, I know, mamma; but it don't need to mean he's a born gambler, does it? Boys have got to sow their wild oats." "Ya, ya! Wild oats!
It's pleasant for an old fogy like myself to see the young bloods in the ring; I've done some pretty wild gambles in my time in this very city, when it was a smaller place and I was a younger man. Yes, I know you, Mr. Dodd. By sight, I may say I know you extremely well, you and your followers, the fellows in the kilts, eh? Pardon me.
As it was, he read it in troubled preoccupation; then reddened sharply: he was a worthless cuss; he couldn't stand on his own legs and get married like a man; his girl had to urge her uncle to let her support her lover! "Damn," said David softly. A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
Since the wandering Comstock and Curry, proverbially unfortunate discoverers, like Marshall, pointed to hundreds of millions for the "silver kings," along Mount Davidson's stony, breast, he gambles daily. The stock board is his play-room. The mining stock exchange gives his maturer years the wilder excitements of the old El Dorado.
"So, sir, you took the liberty to gamble in my store last night, eh?" "I wasn't the only one." "Hold your tongue, sir. You dare not tell me you didn't propose it?" "Mallory, Adams and Arthur Pratt joined me." "You knew the store's rules better than they. Do you know that I think any one that gambles will steal?" "Then your store is full of thieves."
"This is the gentleman who gambles his friend to desperation, and skulks behind a woman, like the coward he is," sneered Gilbert. "Traitor and swindler, you lie!" shouted Manuel, and, flinging his wife behind him, he sent the glove, with a stinging blow, full in his opponent's face.
When a rake gambles away his expectations, the fact that it is an inconvenient debt doesn't make him the less liable.
A boy that gambles away his last cent when he knows just the least bit of excitement his father can't stand! Izzy knows how it goes against his father when he plays. Ya, ya! I don't need to look for trouble; I got it. Your papa, with his heart trouble, is enough by itself." "Well, we're all careful, ain't we, mamma?
"His majesty's promises?" said my lord thoughtfully. "His majesty may never have a chance of fulfilling them." "Very true, sir. But who gambles must set a stake upon the board. Your lordship has been something of a gamester already, and or so I gather with little profit. Here is a chance to play another game that may mend the evil fortunes of the last." The earl scanned him in surprise.
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