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Updated: June 13, 2025
As I finished the race almost before I began it, the less said about the affair the better but I shall never forget that Paris to Vienna meeting, and I shall never forget it because of my friend Ferdinand, one of the best and bravest who ever turned a wheel, and the right winner of that great prize, but for the woman who said "No," and said it so queerly and to such effect that a magician out of the story-books couldn't have done it better.
"It's blue sleeves!" "Yallow cap! yallow cap! yallow cap!" and so forth, yelled the gentlemen sportsmen during that delicious and thrilling minute before the contest was decided; and as the fluttering signal blew out, showing the number of the famous horse Podasokus as winner of the race, one of the gentlemen on the "Harlequin's Head" drag sprang up off the roof, as if he was a pigeon and about to fly away to London or York with the news.
He flashed past, low, pointed, long, going faster every magnificent stride winner by a dozen lengths. Wildfire ran on down the valley far beyond the yelling crowd lined along the slope. Bostil was deaf to the throng; he watched the stallion till Lucy forced him to stop and turn. Then Bostil whirled to see where Van was with the King.
Like most of his race, his habits were strictly sober. As he kept a cool head, he usually won; and his winnings at tarok made a substantial addition to the income which he made by selling spirits and tobacco. Leopold Hirsch, who kept the village grocery store, was also an inveterate player, and, like Goldstein, a very steady winner.
"'Then confusion was piled upon confusion, nor can my memory hold all that came to pass. For this game played itself afresh in lands, and lives, and tongues without number. Only the last bout and the winner were not revealed to me. "'And in my dream I cried aloud to the protecting Gods to escape out of the dream, and I sought for light that I might see whence these things were.
'He is a gipsy; he stays at The Derby Winner and pays regularly for his lodgings; and his name is Jentham. I know no more. 'I don't suppose there is more to know, cried Lucy, lightly. 'If there is, the police may find out, Miss Pendle. The bishop frowned.
Nevertheless, the likelihood is that the winner collected, for, otherwise, the loser could be held up to public scorn. When Abraham Peirsey, affluent cape-merchant, directed in his will, 1628, that he be buried "without any pomp or vainglory," he probably was protesting the tendency towards elaborate funerals, even in the early days of the Colony.
After leaving the aero meet at Dayton the proud possessor of a trophy as winner of a one hundred mile dash, Dave now found himself and his friends on the aero, grounds at Columbus. This was a summer resort located on Lake Michigan. A two weeks' programme had been arranged, in which Dave was to give exhibitions for his employers of their new model hydroplane.
To live long enough to see her again; a final service and adieu!... Ah, but it had been a good fight, a good fight. No fine phrases; nothing but the lust for blood; a life for a life; a game in which the winner was also like to lose. A gray patch in the white of the road attracted his attention a bridge. "Water!" he murmured.
Neither offered any resistance to the removal of the gloves. 'Shake han's, lads, said Jake. To Macgregor's surprise, Willie's hand was out before his own. 'I'm a leear if ye like, said Willie, still panting, 'but I can stan' up to ye noo! 'So ye can, Macgregor admitted a little reluctantly perhaps, for he had long been used to being the winner.
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