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I'll wager I am having a better time now than Louis XVIII., and, after all, I regard this merely as a vacation. I'll have a good rest at Elba while Louis is pushing the button of government at Paris. After a while I'll come back and press the buttons and Louis will do the rest. There's some honey in the old Bees yet." At Valence, however, the Emperor had a bitter cup to drain.
They shall think they are only carrying out a wager." "And I," answered D'Harmental, "will show you that I do not haggle with my friends. Here are two thousand crowns in gold, take them on account if we succeed; if we fail we will cry quits."
"And, to show you that I mean just what I say, I will wager against your head all the diamonds in the ceiling above us, that he will make not only as good treasures, but those which the Asas will esteem much higher." "Agreed!" cried Loki, "agreed! I take the wager. Let your brother try his skill at once." The three went straightway to Sindre's forge, and the brothers began their task.
But come, now, I would lay a wager you are no coward?" "Indeed, sir, I am not more afraid than another," said Nance. "None of my blood are given to fear." "And you are honest?" he returned. "I will answer for that," said she. "Well, then, to be brave, to be honest, to be kind, and to be contented, since you say you are so is not that to fill up a great part of virtue?"
I will wager that there's not one real Egyptian, who would not rather fly from the battle-field than take aim at one of these sacred animals." This speech was met by a loud burst of laughter; on being discussed, however, it was approved of, and ordered to be carried out at once.
But the church has learned that there are better ways of settling personal quarrels than the wager of battle; and it is likely to learn, after a while, that there are better ways of settling international and industrial difficulties than the way of war.
A feverish, multicoloured crowd jostles about the long green cloths. Algerian soldiers on leave, gambling their meagre pay. Moorish merchants from the upper town. Negroes. Maltese. Colonists who have come a hundred miles to wager the price of a cart or a pair of oxen on the turn of a card. Pale, tense and anxious as they watch the game. There are Algerian Jews, gambling en famille.
You discovered how I had contravened the influence upon which you counted; you trembled to see how the unexpected had befriended me, and you began to fear for your wager. "What did you do?
The first representation which I attended was the "Barber of Seville" in which Isabey played the role of Figaro, and Mademoiselle Hortense that of Rosine and the "Spiteful Lover." Another time I saw played the "Unexpected Wager," and "False Consultations."
I didn't know there could be any thing so honest in shape of a woman under fifty: she doesn't look a day over twenty-five; but, they say she's nearly forty; it's the strangest thing in life she's never married. I'll wager any thing, she's wishing this minute I was in Guinea; but she'll put it through bravely for sake of Sally, as she calls her, and I'll keep out of her way all I can.
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