It's property, look you, Redmond; and the only way I have found of keeping a little about me.
When the luck goes against me, why, my dear, my diamonds go to the pawnbrokers, and I wear paste.

Friend Moses the goldsmith will pay me a visit this very day; for the chances have been against me all the week past, and I must raise money for the bank to-night.

Do you understand the cards ?' I replied that I could play as soldiers do, but had no great skill.
'We will practise in the morning, my boy,' said he, 'and I'll put you up to a thing or two worth knowing.' Of course I was glad to have such an opportunity of acquiring knowledge, and professed myself delighted to receive my uncle's instruction.
The Chevalier's account of himself rather disagreeably affected me.
All his show was on his back, as he said.

His carriage, with the fine gilding, was a part of his stock in trade.

He HAD a sort of mission from the Austrian Court:--it was to discover whether a certain quantity of alloyed ducats which had been traced to Berlin, were from the King's treasury.