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Barbicane did not wish to receive this money from his travelling companion, but he was obliged to give way to Nicholl, who wished to fulfil all his engagements before leaving the earth. "Then," said Michel Ardan, "there is but one thing I wish for you now, captain." "What is that?" asked Nicholl. "It is that you may lose your other two wagers.
Since the wagers were kisses, you can well imagine I went down on the first next dive with soul aflame. "I got no squid. Never again in all my life have I dived for squid. Perhaps we were five fathoms down and exploring the face of the reefwall for lurking places of our prey, when it happened.
I could have sworn she was laughing, had I not known better. "Well?" "Well, that was a reference to a little pleasantry Mr. Fox had put up on him some time before. His Grace flared, but tried not to show it. That made me angry, and I told the duke I was no jockey to be put up to decide wagers, and that he must make his offers to me." "La!" said Dolly, "you fell in head over heels."
Always she insisted that Stephen O'Mara would win through; she made happy, petty wagers with both of them, in anticipation of their journey north, against the first of May. But there was one bit of news which her father had not been able to pass on to her.
Each crowd had one or more followers entered for every event and, as before, numerous wagers were made as to which person and which crowd would win. Dick had entered for the high jump, Tom for the hammer throwing, and Sam for a half mile race for cadets of his own class. The boys practiced a good deal, although not always where the others could see what they were doing.
Gerherd that anybody might have got his whole estate in wagers upon't that would have ventured but a reasonable proportion of their own. And now he looks more like an ass than ever he did. She has cast him off most unhandsomely, that's the truth on't, and would have tied him to such conditions as he might have been her slave withal, but could never be her husband.
In the course of his tour, as he and his party approached a fort, he heard a quick firing for several minutes; concluding that it was attacked, they hastened to its relief, but found the garrison were merely amusing themselves firing at a mark, or for wagers. In this way they would waste their ammunition as freely as they did their provisions.
This is a charity dance; no one makes wagers at such affairs." "But Why, my goodness! there's my Jesuit now!" And to my intense relief she dashed away. I carefully observed the Jesuit, and made up my mind to keep an eye upon him. If he really possessed the ten of hearts, the man who kept tally on the cardboard was doing some tall thinking about this time.
'I'll bet ye I'm a corp afore we get to Dover, he bleated. 'That's as near as ever ye'll be to bein' a corporal, remarked the cheerful Jake. 'But hoo d'ye ken it'll be Dover? 'I'll bet ye Na! I'll no tak' on ony mair wagers. I've a tremenjous bet on wi' this yin' indicating Macgregor 'every dashed penny I possess that we're boun' for Flanders. He says the Dardanelles.
Still it was constantly reported that "Figaro" was about to be performed; there were even wagers laid upon the subject; I never should have laid any myself, fancying that I was better informed as to the probability than anybody else; if I had, however, I should have been completely deceived.
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