If you don't happen to know how such a thing looks, I can show you." "Yet rumour says," observed Wolff, "that the Emperor is gracious to you, and knows how to fill it again." "If one doesn't go too far," replied Heinz, "and my royal master, who lacks spending money himself only too often, doesn't keep his word that it was done for the last time.

I heard that yesterday morning, and thought that the golden blessing which preceded it would last the dear saints only knew how long.

But ere the cock had crowed even once this morning the last florin had vanished.

Dice, Herr Wolff Eysvogel--dice!" "Then I would keep my hands off them," said the other meaningly.
"If the Old Nick or some one else did not always guide them back! Did you, a rich man's son, never try what the dice would do for you ?" "Yes, Sir Knight.

It was at Venice, where I was pursuing my studies, and tried my luck at gambling on many a merry evening with other sons of mercantile families from Nuremberg, Augsburg, and Cologne." "And your feathers were generously plucked ?" "By no means.