If he won he whistled, if he lost he whistled.

It mattered little.

Good looking, well dressed, generous to a fault, tainted but moderately with scandal, he was a man whom everybody admired, but who admired few in return--a perfectly natural and proper condition if one but stops to consider.
Miss Vernon was beautiful--of that there was no question.

Tall, fair, brown-eyed and full of the life that loves, she ruled the hearts of many and--kept her hand for one.

Her short, gay life had been one of luxury and ease.