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Updated: June 11, 2025
But the part this man played in that past lives only in the rude court records of that day, in the traditions of the gambling-hell and the saloons, and on the headstones of his victims.
The criminal and the sensualist leave the church for the gambling-hell and the brothel, and fill the slums of Chicago and Baltimore; the better classes segregate themselves from the group-life of both white and black, and form an aristocracy, cultured but pessimistic, whose bitter criticism stings while it points out no way of escape.
You marvel that the merchants, manufacturers, miners, lawyers, farmers, who have sufficient intelligence to gather such surplus legitimately, would bring it to our gambling-hell, where upon all sides is plain proof that we who conduct the gambling, and who produce nothing, are obliged to take from those who do produce, hundreds of millions each year for expenses, and hundreds of millions each year for profits for you know that we have nothing to give them in return for what they bring to us.
It is natural, however, that this adventurer who has kept a gambling-hell and ruined many a man, soul and body, and who now wishes to reinstate herself in a virtuous social position should thus strive to palliate her past proceedings. Self-justification is one of the first laws of life. Even Iago, who never deceives himself, yet announces one adequate motive for his fearful crimes.
I'm used to brutality. I like it better. Why did he leave the army and why is he in Algiers?" "If you prefer the direct method, my dear Lola," said I and the name came quite trippingly on my tongue "I'll employ it. Your husband has apparently been kicked out of the army and is now running a gambling-hell." She took the blow bravely; but it turned her face haggard like a paroxysm of physical pain.
"I say, you fellows," protested one of the bystanders, "you'll smash up this club you'll have the police shutting it up as a gambling-hell. Besides, you're breaking the rules; you'll have the committee expelling you." "What rules?" Lionel's opponent asked, wheeling round. "The amount of the stakes, for one thing; and playing after three o'clock, for another," was the answer.
Balfour here would have us believe that this Western man is really something wonderful." "Well, I don't know," said Brown. "You never think of whether he is wonderful or not, but one thing I know, he makes you see things the mountains and that foot-hill country, the mining camps and all that saloon and gambling-hell business, till you can smell the brimstone and you want to be in it." "What?
It must be bitter as gall for a woman like Stanton to be treated as you treated her with respect. Yet see how it got her." "I didn't see anything in particular," replied Neale. "You were too excited and disgusted with the whole scene," said Hough as they reached the roaring lights of the gambling-hell. "Will you go in and play again? There are always open games."
Again I saw my mother's patient, anxious smile, my father's drowned face with the salt drops trickling from his golden hair, the struggle on the rock, the inquest, the awful face at the window, the corpses of my parents stretched side by side upon the bed, the scene in the gambling-hell with all its white and desperate faces, Claire, my lost love, the river, the theatre, Tom's death, and that last dreadful scene, Francesca with the dark blood soaking her white dress and trickling down upon the boards.
'Will you take that away with you and show all the world that it is I, Binat? He moaned and wept. 'Monsieur has paid for all, said Madame. 'To the pleasure of seeing Monsieur again. The courtyard gate shut, and Dick hurried up the sandy street to the nearest gambling-hell, where he was well known.
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