What's it for ?" "I lost it at chicken-hazard last night.

Poulteney lent it me, and I told him I would send it him in the morning.

The ponies were gone before I thought of it, Bertie, and I haven't a notion where to get them to pay him again." "Heavy stakes, young one, for you," murmured Cecil, while his hand dropped from the boy's shoulder, and a shadow of gravity passed over his face; money was very scarce with himself.

Berkeley gave him a hurried, appealing glance.

He was used to shift all his anxieties on to his elder brother, and to be helped by him under any difficulty.