18/42 I feel defiled by breathing the same air with such a crowd of card-sharpers and scoundrels." "I say they were good honest gentlemen. Sir Thomas Leland was there, and----" "I don't care if they were all princes. They were a bad lot, and theft and cards and brandy were written large on every sickly, wicked, white face of them. O Harry, how dared you disgrace your family by keeping such company ?" "No one but a Methodist preacher is respectable in your eyes, John. They gambled with horses instead of cards. |