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He placed them on the number thirty-two, or, at least, he believed that he placed them on this number. "Rien ne va plus!" The ball rolled in the cylinder. "Thirty-one!" cried the croupier, adding some other words that Saniel did not understand. So little did he understand roulette that he thought he had lost.
But one night he came home cheerful and hilarious, though rather the worse for liquor. He showed her a roll of notes which he had won at roulette over a hundred pounds and added, "That shall be the game for me in future, Polly; all square and above-board there." "My dear George, I wish you'd give up gambling." "So I will, some of these fine days, my dear. I only do it to pass the time.
Nevertheless, he never quite understood how it was that his feet carried him to the other roulette table, at the end of the salon opposite that at which he had been playing; or how it was that his fingers produced and coolly handed over the board, one of the twenty-dollar notes rather than the modest five he had meant to risk. "How many?" the new croupier asked pleasantly.
"Yes, I feel I shall like roulette better," Mary decided. "That is right. You have temperament, Mademoiselle. Already you listen to your feelings. I too, have a strong feeling. It is, that we shall be friends. My name is Madame d'Ambre Madeleine d'Ambre. And yours?" "Mary Grant." "Madame or Mademoiselle?" "Mademoiselle, of course." Mary blushed.
Even though you came to me today with a drayful of crooked faro layouts and doctored-up roulette wheels from Penfield's house, it would be practically impossible, at this peculiar juncture of municipal administration, to take in my men and carry out a raid over Captain Kuttrell's head!" "Ah, I see! You regard Penfield as immune!" "Penfield is not immune!" said the public prosecutor.
And he took me to the gaming tables of pleasure and the gaming tables of work, and he sought to enchant me with figures and hypnotise me with the gleam of gold. He showed me how fortunes were made in roulette and in commerce, and tried to bring upon me the gambler's madness. And I smiled and said: "'Behold the eyes of yonder gambler; his soul is asphyxied with gold.
They took the "cure." Rode horseback, motored, played roulette at the casino for big stakes, and scorned the American plan of service for the smarter European idea, with a special
"Quite a lot of the people here are really enjoying the music and quite a lot are simply marking time till the tables are open and they can go and play boule." Tony nodded. "The sheep and the goats," he replied. "Count me among the latter. But boule's a rotten poor game," discontentedly. "Give me roulette every time. One has the chance to win something worth while at that."
Roulette seems the simpler game, and the more popular; I formed the notion that there was a sort of aristocratic quality in Trente et Quarante, and that the players of that game were of higher rank and longer purse, but I can allege no reason justifying my notion.
Then speedily there would be rows behind rows of eager players or spectators, and what a sight it all was to the cool-headed observer. With what keen interest all watched the result of the first turn of the card at the card tables and the color of the first hit at roulette. For all gamblers are superstitious, and are devout believers in omens.
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