I'm not open to it.

Others are.' Hereupon Woodseer, wishing to have his individuality recognised in the universality it consented to, remarked on an exchequer that could not afford to lose, and a disposition free of the craving to win.
These were, no doubt, good reasons for abstaining, and they were grand morality.

They were, at the same time, customary phrases of the unfleshed in folly.

They struck Fleetwood with a curious reminder of the puking inexperienced, whom he had seen subsequently plunge suicidally.
He had a sharp vision of the attractive forces of the game; and his elemental nature exulted in siding with the stronger against a pretender to the superhuman.

For Woodseer had spoken a trifle loftily, as quite above temptation.