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Marse Henry
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CHAPTER the Sixteenth
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He would, and he did, name his own committees both in the Board of Aldermen and the Common Council.

Thus, for the time being, "insurgency" was quelled.
And once more serenely sat the Castle on the hill hard by the Cathedral.
Calmly again flowed the waters in the harbor.

More and more the autos honked outside the Casino.

Within "the little ball ever goes merrily round," and according to the croupiers and the society reporters "the gentleman wins and the poor gambler loses!" IV To illustrate, I recall when on a certain season the lucky sport of print and fancy was an Englishman.

In one of those farragos of stupidity and inaccuracy which are syndicated and sent from abroad to America, I found the following piece with the stuff and nonsense habitually worked off on the American press as "foreign correspondence": "Now and then the newspapers report authentic instances of large sums having been won at the gaming tables at Monte Carlo.


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