Therefore the only comments we excite is, `There go those young fools who are ruining themselves.' It is only because you are on horseback that I have come round to this gate; had you come on foot we should have entered by the front.

Fortunately there are among us many who are deemed to be mere pleasure seekers--men who wager fortunes on their horses, who are given to banquets, or whose lives seem to be passed in luxury and indolence, but who at heart are as earnest in the cause of Carthage as I am.

The presence of such men among us gives a probability to the tale that this is a gambling house.

Were we all of my stamp, men known to be utterly hostile to Hanno and his party, suspicion would fall upon our meetings at once.

But here we are." As he spoke he drew aside some heavy curtains and entered a large room.
Some ten or twelve young men were assembled there.