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But now to the dialogue. JASPER. "Yes, Poole, my hearty, as you say, that fellow trumping my best club lost me the last rubber. There's no certainty in whist, if one has a spoon for a partner." POOLE. "No certainty in every rubber, but next to certainty in the long run, when a man plays as well as you do, Mr. Losely.
"What was the name of of " "The convict? He called himself Chapman, but the son's name was Losely Jasper." "Ah!" faltered Darrell, recoiling. "And you spoke of a little girl?" "Jasper Losely's daughter; he came after her with a magistrate's warrant. The old miscreant had carried her off, to teach her his own swindling ways, I suppose." "Luckily she was then in my charge.
He refused at first to admit suspicion of Losely; but, on interrogating his servants, the valet deposed, that he was disturbed about two o'clock in the morning by the bark of the house- dog, which was let loose of a night within the front courtyard of the house. Gunston's study.
She gave the detective some information respecting Madame Caumartin. One day towards the evening she was surprised by a visit from Uncle Sam. He called ostensibly to thank her for her kindness to his godson and nephew; and to beg her not to be offended if he had been rude to Mr. Losely, who, he understood from Dolly, was a particular friend of hers.
Crane in the woman described; and, if surprised, he was rejoiced. For, much as he disliked that gentlewoman, he thought Sophy might be in worse female hands. Without much need of sagacity, he divined the gist of the truth. Losely had somehow or other become acquainted with Rugge, and sold Sophy to the manager. Where Rugge was, there would Sophy be.
I can stake my pistoles that is, sir, so far as a fourpenny bit goes. If ignorant of this French game, sir, cribbage or all fours?" "No," said Losely, mournfully; "there is nothing to be got out of you; otherwise" he stopped and sighed. "But I have seen you under other circumstances. What has become of your Theatrical Exhibition? Gambled it away?
To know so strong a man, so fine an animal, was something to boast of. In fact, he had got into a world which did not cut him, and his exterior was improved by the atmosphere. Mr. Losely professed to dislike general society. Drawing rooms were insipid; clubs full of old fogies. "I am for life, my boys," said Mr. Losely, "'Can sorrow from the goblet flow, Or pain from Beauty's eye?" Mr.
True, Charles Haughton was a spendthrift, a gamester; but he was neither a professional cheat nor a convicted felon." "You said that Oh, Darrell!" The Colonel checked himself. But for Charles Haughton, the spendthrift and gamester, would William Losely have been the convicted felon? He checked that thought, and hurried on: "And how did William Losely reply?"
Jasper Losely had been brought to this ball by a young fellow-clerk in the same commercial house as himself; and then in all the bloom of that conspicuous beauty, to which the miniature Arabella had placed before his eyes so many years afterwards did but feeble justice, it may well be conceived that he concentred on himself the admiring gaze of the assembly.
"None; unless you will let Brown and Smith play upon tick." "Pooh! but there's Robinson, he has an aunt he can borrow from?" "Robinson! spitting blood, with an attack of delirium tremens! You have done for him." "'Can sorrow from the goblet flow?" said Losely.
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