It's absurd to imagine people are so calculating.

Where would his interest come in ?" Labordette was listening with a quiet expression.

Shrugging his shoulders, he said: "Oh, leave them alone; they must have their say.

The count has again laid at least as much as five hundred louis on Lusignan, and if he's wanted Nana to run to a hundred louis it's because an owner ought always to look as if he believes in his horses." "Oh, bosh! What the deuce does that matter to us ?" shouted La Faloise with a wave of his arms.

"Spirit's going to win! Down with France--bravo, England!" A long shiver ran through the crowd, while a fresh peal from the bell announced the arrival of the horses upon the racecourse.