Volume IV Part 86 (1/2)
”Then you would have the advantage”
”If you can prove that I will pay you a hundred sequins Indeed, I would bet anything you like that the gae of the banker”
”Can you prove it?”
”Yes; and I will nae”
I was asked to prove es of the banker,” said I, ”are two The first and the sot to attend to is not to deal wrongly, which is a very small matter to an habitual player; and all the time the punter has to rack his brains on the chances of one card or another coe is one of time The banker draws his card at least a second before the punter, and this again gives hiht the Marquis Triulzi said that to make the chances perfectly equal the players would have to be equal, which was almost out of the question
”All that is too sublime for me,” said Canano; ”I don't understand it”
But, after all, there was not much to understand
After dinner I went to the ”Three Kings” to find out what Irene had to say to me, and to enjoy her presence When she saw me she ran up to me, threw her arerness for me to lay much value on the salute However, I have always known that if one wants to enjoy pleasure onehalf the enjoy the 'forlana', why should not I have pleased her in spite of e? It was not ih for me, as I did not intend to make her my wife
The father and mother received me as their preserver, and they ed me to come out of the room for a moment with him, and ere on the other side of the door, said,--
”Forgive an old and unfortunate ive a father, if I ask you whether it is true that you proo to the ball with you”
”It is quite true, but of course you knohat the consequences will be”
At these words the poor old rascal took hold of htened th, but it was only to embraceHe ran and told his wife, who had not been able to believe in such luck any more than her husband, and Irene added a co,--
”You must not thinkon theht you said fifty instead of a hundred, as if I were not worth such a sum”
”You are worth a thousand,the way pleased me extremely But you must come to the ball in a domino”
”Oh! you will be pleased with oing to wear? Have you no other stockings? Where are your gloves?”
”Good heavens! I have nothing”
”Quick! Send for the tradesmen We will choose ant, and I will pay”
Rinaldi went out to su-maker, and a perfumer I spent thirty sequins in what I considered necessary, but then I noticed that there was no English point on her ht in a milliner, who adorned the mask with an ell of lace for which I paid twelve sequins Irene was in great delight, but her father and mother would have preferred to have the ht
When Irene put on her fine clothes I thought her delicious, and I sahat an essential thing dress is to a woman
”Be ready,” said I, ”before the ti to the ball ill sup together in a roos to me, where we shall be quite at our ease You knohat to expect,” I added, e her She answered me with an ardent kiss