I always left off playing when I had lost ten pounds.

That is the one advantage the player has over the banker--he can stop playing when he has lost a small sum." "Oh! I see!" exclaimed Chester drily.
And then they became silent, for close by where they now stood, a little apart from the table, an angry altercation was going on between Monsieur and Madame Wachner.

It was the first time Sylvia had ever heard the worthy couple quarrelling in public the one with the other.
"I tell you I will _not_ go away!" L'Ami Fritz was saying between his teeth.

"I feel that to-night I am in luck, in great luck! What I ask you to do, Sophie, is to go away yourself, and leave me alone.

I have made a thousand francs this evening, and at last I have an opportunity of trying my new system.