Besides, I had planned it, that when I showed her what I had won, she would shut her eyes to the broken promise, and I'd make another, and keep it ever after.

I put on all the cash there was to put on, all I could raise on what was left of my property." He paused as though to get strength to continue.

Then a look of intense excitement suddenly possessed him, and there--passed over him a wave of feeling which transformed him.

The naturally grave mediaeval face became fired, the eyes blazed, the skin shone, the mouth almost trembled with agitation.

He was the dreamer, the enthusiast, the fanatic almost, with that look which the pioneer, the discoverer, the adventurer has when he sees the end of his quest.
His voice rose, vibrated.