Light Come, Light Go: Gambling—Gamesters—Wagers—The Turf

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Ralph Nevill. Light Come, Light Go: Gambling—Gamesters—Wagers—The Turf

Light Come, Light Go: Gambling—Gamesters—Wagers—The Turf

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Ralph Nevill

Published by Good Press, 2019

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From six in the morning, when the visitors who were taking the Sulzbach waters began to be about, the contest excited the greatest public interest. Casanova was now losing a hundred louis, though his luck had not been very bad.

At nine o'clock a lady, Madame Saxe by name, to whom d'Entragues was very devoted, arrived upon the scene and persuaded each of the combatants to partake of a cup of chocolate. D'Entragues was the first to consent to this; he believed that his opponent was near to giving in.

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