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"Will you play again?"

"No; I lost seventy pounds to-night"

"I protest, grando not with amusement

People come here, not for civility, but for the chance of money"

"Very well, sir Money! It is the only excuse for card-playing All the

rest is sinning without temptation But, Dick, put on the black coat to

preach in,--why do they wear black to preach in?--and I am not in a

humour for a sermon Come to-morrow at one o'clock; we shall reach

Julia's before dinner And I dare say you want ht-hand drawer are some rouleaus of

fifty pounds each Take two"

The weather, as Lady Capel said, was "so very Dece frozen dry and hard; and on the evening

of the third day Hyde caht of his hohts in its s beckoned him far more

pleasantly than the brilliant illuminations of Vauxhall or Almacks, or

even the cold splendours of royal receptions He had given Katherine no

warning of his visit--partly because he had a superstitious feeling

about talking of expected joys (he had noticed that when he did so they

vanished beyond his grasp); partly because love, like destiny, loves