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It seereat deal of experience, and that things which heretofore had been troublesome to hi easily within his reach He had o or three thousand pounds at cards, whereas invariable loss had been the result of the sed He had been set tofor the attempt, because of its difficulties and the sirl was already willing and anxious to ju at cards,--an extent of iniquity that ful to hi to think that there was not very much in that If there was not much in it, if such a ht to no punish, no doubt He remembered that on one or two occasions he had asked his adversary to cut the cards a second time at whist, because he had observed that there was no honour at the botto of honesty had interfered with him The little trick had hardly been premeditated, but when successful without detection had not troubled his conscience Now it seeht be done without detection But nothing had opened his eyes to the ways of the world so widely as the sweet lover-like propositionher father It certainly recoe, amidst the circuether those scruples of honesty, those bugbears of the world, which are apt to prevent great enterprises in the minds of men

What should he do next? This sue It would not have been worth the while of such aprovision of this nature It could hardly be less than £50,000,--ht probably be very much more But this was certain to him,--that if he and Marie were to claim this money as man and wife, there could then be no hope of further liberality It was not probable that such a ive even an only child such an offence as that Even if it were obtained, £50,000 would not be very ht probably havethe possession of the money very uncomfortable These were deep waters into which Sir Felix was preparing to plunge; and he did not feel hih he liked the deep waters