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Updated: June 20, 2025
There was a fat, livid Neapolitan betting heavily; there was a creole lady, with a fine oval face, rather sallow, and eyes and hair as black as Zoe's own. Indeed, the creole excelled her, by the addition of a little black fringe upon her upper lip that, prejudice apart, became her very well.
"We are not going to bet; that would be contrary to the constitution." "Would it? I didn't hear nothing about betting." "Article second says that one of the objects of the association shall be the acquiring of good habits in general; and I am sure betting is a very bad habit." "Well, I s'pose it is."
Her father would practically abandon betting, and, should he have been fortunate enough to have backed a winner, would at once rush on conscience-stricken feet to pour the whole of his gains into the nearest missionary collecting-box.
What were they thinking of? He wouldn't mind betting it was their mother. Mr. Twist's heart gave a kind of tug at him. His sentimental, maternal side heaved to the top. A great impulse to hurry out and put his arms round them seized him, but he frowned and overcame it. He didn't want to go soft now.
"Between ourselves, Cecil, that fellow is going up no end. The Talent fancy him so " "Let them," said Cecil placidly, with a great cheroot in his mouth, lounging into the center of the Ring to hear how the betting went on his own mount; perfectly regardless that he would keep them waiting at the weights while he dressed.
'Why are you sorry for him? asked Râja Haji, 'He had cheated me and it was not fitting that he should live; besides, he was a Chinaman, and we counted not their lives as being of any worth. In Kinta, before Mr. Birch went to Pêrak, they had a game called Main China, each man betting on the number of the coins which a passing Chinaman carried in his pouch, and whether they were odd or even.
"The Earl may be mistaken." "You are not betting much, I hope." "Not plunging. But I have a little money on." "Don't get into a way of betting." "Why: what difference does it make, to you?" "Is that kind, Lord Silverbridge?" "I meant to say that if I did make a mess of it you wouldn't care about it." "Yes, I should. I should care very much.
But, like your mother, I don't approve of young men betting I know what it means." He was thinking, with bitterness, of his own youthful indiscretions. "If you go, don't bet. You might be tempted, naturally, to back your father's mare Lucretia, but you would stand a very good chance of losing." "Don't you think she'll win, sir?" Alan asked, emboldened by his employer's freedom of speech.
It was a gamble, but a gamble his life had always been, and a fair gamble, an even break, is all that men like Alan Howard ask. He realized with a full measure of grimness that never until now had he placed a wager like this one; he was betting heavily and he knew not against what odds that at the end of twenty miles he would find water. Hour after hour he trudged on.
My estimate of the effects of betting is such that I would neither employ nor trust any man who is addicted to it. I hope and believe that I am talking to young men who have never touched this dangerous thing. Continue to be wise. Others, it may be, have ventured a little way. My message to you is, turn away from it, another step may make retreat impossible.
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