I could not tear myself from the spot.

I felt chained by some mysterious and undefinable interest; my attention was first diverted into a new channel, by a loud exclamation from the dark visaged gambler at the table; it was the first he had uttered, notwithstanding his anxiety; and, from the deep, thrilling tone in which it was expressed, it conveyed a keen sympathy with the overcharged feelings which it burst from.
With a trembling hand, he took from an old purse the few Napoleons that were still left there.

He set them all at one hazard, on the rouge.

He hung over the table with a dropping lip; his hands were tightly clasped in each other; his nerves seemed strained into the last agony of excitation.

I ventured to raise my eyes upon the gaze, which I felt must still be upon the gambler--there it was fixed, and stern as before; but it now conveyed a deeper expression of joy than of the other passions which were there met.