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As usual, women are among the most reckless players. Looking in at two o'clock one afternoon I saw at one of the tables a well-dressed lady of about thirty, with a purseful of gold before her and a bundle of notes under her elbow. She was playing furiously, disdaining the mild excitement of the five-franc piece, always staking gold.
And there was Shorty, waiting! One way and another, the lost dog had been able to gather some ready money. He was cheerful because of this momentary purseful of prosperity. "And so I come back, yu' see," he said. "For I figured on getting Pedro back as soon as I could when I sold him to yu'." "You're behind the times, Shorty," said Balaam. Shorty looked blank.
But as folks nowadays much rather give a purseful of crowns to a crafty spy than a farthing to a poor needy man, she had to toil a whole day to get a dish of kidney-beans, and that at a time when they were very plentiful. Now one day the poor old woman, after having washed the beans, put them in a pot, placed it outside the window, and went on her way to the wood to gather sticks for the fire.
"But you showed me a whole purseful of gold the other day," said Fred. "Well, it's gone, Fred, and it isn't gone; but I know who could help me to find it if I could catch a sight of her." "And who is that?" asked Fred. "Elma Lewis." "Elma Lewis! Do you like her?" "I can't say that I like her no I don't think I do; but she would help me, if I could only get to see her."
Swiftly he buckled it on to me, throwing over all a long, dark robe such as merchants wear. From the cupboard, too, he brought the big black bow and a sheath of arrows, also a purseful of gold pieces from where they were kept, and with them the leathern bag which he had worn when I found him on the quay.
"Och, there's more beggars between here and Queenstown than you 'd find in the whole of Ameriky." It seemed to Nora as if her purseful of money were warm against her breast, like another heart; the sixpences in her pocket all felt warm to her fingers and hopped by themselves into the pleading hands that were stretched out all along the way.
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