" "And all those persons are hazarding their means of subsistence on the imaginary estimate mentioned by the auctioneer?" "They are gambling as recklessly as he who places his substance on the cast of the die.

Different tribes gamble differently.

Most of our wits, it must have been seen, have had some other interest and occupation in life than that of 'making wit:' some have been authors, some statesmen, some soldiers, some wild-rakes, and some players of tricks: Selwyn had no profession but that of diseur de bons mots; for though he sat in the House, ne took no prominent part in politics; though he gambled extensively, he did not game for the sake of money only.

He did not mingle with the upper set, and his lack of education prevented him from amounting to much in the academies and scientific centers, while his backwardness and his parish-house politics drove him from the clubs disgusted, vexed, seeing nothing clearly but that there they were forever borrowing money and gambling heavily.

The girl married that Roman prince, Paolo di Sereno, who used to make such a sensation going about in an aeroplane, and gambling high at Monte Carloawfully handsome man, a lot older than she.

That Dale, Galloway, Norton, and a few other gentlemen of the neighbourhood were under their wives' thumbs to such a degree that they did not dare to gamble openly was a matter of common knowledge.

[Footnote A: Women gambled as passionately as did the men in the early part of the eighteenth century.

In Paris, you have beheld the unpleasant spectacle of women gambling publicly in the funds; but it was in driblets, compared to what you will see here.

They say Tom is gambling scandalously.

With the money thus obtained they gambled desperately.

Swiftly he gambled and dissipated himself into comparative poverty.