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Captain Osborn's life in India had not ended in his making no further debts. He was not a man to put the brake on in the matter of self-indulgence. He got into debt so long as a shred of credit remained to him, and afterwards he tried to add to his resources by cards and betting at races. He made and lost by turn, and was in a desperate state when he got his leave.
It was an ancient grudge, Markham learned, and an even thing in the betting, but Armistead pulled through by good passing and made the sets deuce. "Gad! It makes me hot to look at 'em!" said Crosby Downs, fingering at his collar band, his face brick-color from the day in the open. "Make 'em stop, somebody." He dropped into a wicker chair and fanned vigorously with his hat. "Lord!
A striped jacket is down, and the horse, after a vain effort to rise, sinks lifeless on the ground. On they go all the same! Loud yells of exciting betting burst from the spectators, and Buckram gets well on for the cross. There are now five in front Sponge, Spraggon, Hangallows, Boville, and another; and already the pace begins to tell. It wasn't possible to run it at the rate they started.
Large numbers of the speculators will collect, forming themselves into knots and groups on the pavement, and even in the roadway contiguous to the office. Here they appear a motley congregation, a curious agglomeration of seediness. Seediness is the prominent feature of the betting mass, as they are on such occasions collected seediness of dress and of character.
Slick Bradley is the most independent man in the world; he jokes familiarly with his customers, and besides their bill of fare, he knows how to get more of their money by betting, for betting is the great passion of Slick; he will bet any thing, upon every thing: contradict him in what he says, and down come the two pocket-books under your nose. `I know better, he will say, `don't I? What will you bet five, ten, fifty, hundred?
"Waited!" he repeated, with an oath. "I tell you I want those diamonds; and I must have them, and at once." "You want them?" she said, as if mystified; then her face grew crimson for an instant, but paled again as she leant forward. "You mean you can't mean, Percy, that you would sell the diamonds? Oh, I see what that telegram means; you've been betting again! You promised me you wouldn't.
The judge was chatting with O'Brien, the court officers were betting with the reporters as to the length of time in which it would take the twelve to agree upon a verdict of murder in the first. The funeral rites were all concluded except for the final commitment of the corpse to mother earth. And then without warning Angelo suddenly rose and addressed the court in a defiant shriek.
So thick was the throng that it was no easy matter to get out of the George. A drunken man, snoring horribly in his breathing, was curled up in the passage, absolutely oblivious to the stream of people who flowed round and occasionally over him. "What's the betting, boys?" asked Belcher, from the steps. "Even money, Jim," cried several voices. "It was long odds on Wilson when last I heard."
"What about?" inquired the inquisitive Wibberly, who seemed to have the knack of hitting upon unwelcome topics. "It wouldn't do you any good to know," growled Gilks. "I heard it was some betting row, or something of that sort," said Wibberly. "Eh? yes something of that sort," said Gilks. "Well," said Wibberly, "I never cared much for Silk. He always seemed to know a little too much for me.
At that instant, or the next, she might fall upon his back, anyway, without anybody shooting her. Indeed, the betting seemed a good few hundred to one that she would. Very few human beings know the full meaning of the word "still" not even bluejackets! but most of the wild-folk do. They have to. So did the thrush, but never before had he kept so utterly, stonily, frozenly, strickenly motionless.
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