gamings

Updated: May 8, 2025

You who know me will know also how useless are such gamings of man with Nature. I could not have slept if a king's ransom went with the sleeping; and so I lay fretful, blameful, scolding myself, condoling with myself, vowing the whole problem a plague and a cheat.

Sir Max Pemberton - The Iron Pirate: A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea