This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...rounds of varied results, the "deal" fell to the young man I have before spoken of. He took the cards, and before shuffling theta even, he threw a bundle of bank notes on the table. "A thousand dollars!" he said, "make your game!" No one answered. Some asked each other, in low tones, who he could be; no one knew him. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...rounds of varied results, the "deal" fell to the young man I have before spoken of. He took the cards, and before shuffling theta even, he threw a bundle of bank notes on the table. "A thousand dollars!" he said, "make your game!" No one answered. Some asked each other, in low tones, who he could be; no one knew him. "A thousand dollars!" he repeated,"who takes cards?" The jewelry-man and the Captain consulted each other by loots. On the one hand, it seemed to them they had seen the young man shuffle the cards in a strange way; on the other, the hope of winning so large a sum at one turn of the cards, fascinated them. Suddenly, as if seized with a bright idea, the jewelry-man, taking from before him a handful of bank-notes, covered the sum already up, saying: "On condition that I shuffle the cards." "Shuffle them," replied his adversary in so quiet a tone that it appeared as if he had foreseen the demand. The game, then, was left to these two men. The other players had kept their places, although they did not play, and with a crowded circle of passengers, they watched in silence the beginning of the contest. The jewelry-man, in asking to shuffle the cards, exercised a privilege that belonged to him; he arranged and cut the cards, then, after his own taste and fashion. The young man did not take his eyes ofi' the pack while this was done. He received the cards thus shuffled and cut; a gleam of something white appeared in his hand as he took the pack. He cooly dealt the cards and then waited. "I am satisfied," said his adversary. "So am I," replied he. Both had the right to call for other cards, by putting aside some of those they already held; they, however, preferred r...
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